In architecture, hyperbolas and parabolas in windows, arches, and doors are common, and decorative mouldings `grow` into plant-derived forms. Like most design styles, Art Nouveau sought to harmonise its forms. The text above the Paris Metro entrance uses the qualities of the rest of the iron work in the structure. Art Nouveau in architecture and.....
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Celtic and Gothic styles with a lot of decorative iron work
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A movement and style of decoration characterized by sinuous curves and flowing lines, asymmetry, and flower and leaf motifs.
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ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use ... [28 related articles]
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Decorative style in the visual arts, interior design, and architecture that flourished from 1890 to 1910. It is characterized by organic, sinuous patterns and ornamentations based usually on...
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A style of architecture and art popular in the 20th century.
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the name of a shop opening in Paris in 1895 to sell objects of modern, i.e. non- period-imitation style, a movement away from imitation of the past. It was concerned mainly with decoration, and is characterised by flowing line and movement owing much to nature ie plant and wave forms. Had ...
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Highly decorative artistic style, popular at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Heavy use is made of ornamentally curving lines and shapes derived from flower and plant motifs.
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A style that originated in the late 1880s, based on the sinuous curves of plant forms, used primarily in architectural detailing and the applied arts.
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A decorative art movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century. Characterized by dense asymmetrical ornamentation in sinuous forms, it is often symbolic and of an erotic nature. Klimt worked in an art nouveau style.
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A style popular from roughly 1895 until World War I. Pieces are characterized by curves and naturalistic designs, especially depicting long-haired, sensual women. Louis Comfort Tiffany made archetypal Art Nouveau pieces.
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Decorative arts style distinguished by curves and flowing lines, asymmetry and flower and leaf motifs, prevalent from the 1880s to the First World War.
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A period and/or style of decoration which first appeared in England in the 1880’s and spread throughout Europe, particularly Belgium, France and Germany, in the early 1890s. It survived for 20 years, reflecting a return to nature and to the values of good workmanship. The characteristics of Art Nouveau were drawn from nature and featured plants a...
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First used by the connoisseur and dealer Samuel Bing as the name of his Paris gallery, which opened on 16th December 1895, it became the generic name for the decorative style current in 1890s and early 1900s, often assymetrical, and usually involving floral patterns with elaborately entwined tendrils. In Germany, it was known as Jugendstil (literal...
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A flowing style with sinuous curves and naturalistic motifs that was popular from about 1895 to 1905. A common motif was a women's head with flowing hair. There are many reproductions on the market today.
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An art style of the late 1800's featuring curving, often swirling shapes based on organic forms.
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Art Nouveau is a name given to a style of design from the 1880s to early 1900s characterised by the application of sinuous natural forms to objet d'art, costume, book bindings and architecture.
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Art style based on organic forms featuring swirling shapes and curves
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A style of jewellery popluar from the late nineteenth century until about 1918. Art nouveau jewellery is characterised by gentle curves and organic designs
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n] - a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s
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nouveau art, art nouveau 1. A French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers. 2. A body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers in a school.
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Complex international style in architecture and design, parallel to Symbolism in fine art. Developed through 1890s and brought to wide audience by 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Characterised by sinuous linearity and flowing organic shapes based on plant forms. In Britain, Mackintosh contained these qualities within severe but eccentric geom...
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noun a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers
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Decorative style in the visual arts, interior design, and architecture that flourished from 1890 to 1910. It is characterized by organic, sinuous patterns and ornamentations based usually on twisting plant forms. In England, it appears in the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley; in Scotland, in the interior and exterior designs of Charles Rennie ...
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a style of fine and applied art current in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized chiefly by curvilinear motifs often derived from natural forms.
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