Art Nouveau Flashcards

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France, Spain name of design movement

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Art Nouveau

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Germany, and the Scandinavian countries name of design movement

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Jugenstil (the young style or the style of youth)

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Austria name of design movement

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Vienna Secession

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Art Nouveau main theme

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A rejection of Victorian styles and of historic imitation in revivals or through eclectic combinations precedents

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Art Nouveau directions can be traced in…

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graphic illustration

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Art Nouveau products and materials

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A willingness to take advantage of modern materials (iron and glass), modern techniques (industrial production), and such innovations as electric lighting
Don’t obsess over hand made products and materials

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Art Nouveau has a close relationship with the…

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fine arts, incorporating painting, bas relief, and sculpture into architecture and interior design

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Art Nouveau has use of decorative ornamentation based on…

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nature forms –flowers, vines, shells, etc. And abstract forms derived from these sources

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Curvilinear forms as dominant themes in…

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both basic structural elements and in ornamentation

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Art Nouveau ornamentation

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More ornamentation compared to arts and crafts movement

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Art Nouveau design specific or copied?

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Highly site specific for interiors and the furniture within them
May look ridiculous in a different space

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Art Nouveau surfaced in many fields and objects:

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Architecture, interior design. advertisements, painting, ceramics, decorative and functional objects (clocks, glassware, picture frames, etc.)

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A number of individuals identified with Arts and Crafts movement designed objects that embodied characteristics of…

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Art Nouveau

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Late 19th century:

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A period of peace and prosperity in continental Europe

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Economic growth generated larger upper and upper-middle classes that could…

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support new and experimental directions in design

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Victor Horta dates and who

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(1861-1947) Belgian architect and designer.

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Henry Van de Velde dates and who

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(1863-1957) Belgian artist, interior designer and architect

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Eugène Vallin dates and who

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(1856-1922) French furniture designer, architect, interior designer

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Hector Guimard dates and who

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(1867-1942) French architect

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Antoni Gaudi dates and who

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(1852-1926) Spanish architect

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Richard Riemerschmid dates and who

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(1868-1957) German artist, architect, interior designer

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Joseph Olbrich dates and who

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(1867-1908) Austrian architect

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Josef Hoffmann dates and who

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(1870-1956) Austrian architect

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Otto Wagner dates and who

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(1841-1918) Austrian architect

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Louis Comfort Tiffany dates and who
(1848-1933) American artist, interior designer
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Louis H. Sullivan dates and who
(1856-1924) American architect
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Charles Francis Annesley Voysey dates and who
(1857-1941) architect, furniture designer, graphic designer
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Masson House DATE + LOCATION
Nancy, France, 1903-14
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Masson House designer
Eugène Vallin
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Tassel House DATE + LOCATION
Brussels, 1892
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Tassel House designer
Victor Horta
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Horta House DATE + LOCATION
Brussels, 1892
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Horta House designer
Victor Horta
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Hector Guimard
public architecture still used today
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Castel Béranger DATE + LOCATION
Paris, 1894-9
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Castel Béranger Designer
Hector Guimard
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Casa Batlló DATE + LOCATION
Barcelona, 1904-06
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Casa Batlló designer
Antoni Gaudi
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Casa Batlló features
highly animated spaces curves
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Casa Batlló Floor Plan
traditional in some ways some angles make space difficult to use
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Art Nouveau issue
Architecture and interiors not in traditional shapes causes spaces to be hard to use
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Atelier Elvira DATE + LOCATION
Munich, 1896
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Atelier Elvira designer
August Endell
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Secession Exhibition devoted to works by the Glasgow Four
(Mackintosh, Mackintosh, MacNair & MacNair), 1900
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Palais Stoclet DATE + LOCATION
Brussels, 1905-11
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Palais Stoclet Designer
Josef Hoffmann
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Palais Stoclet art work on walls by
Gustav Klimt
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Palais Stoclet features
not too curvilinear starting art deco + modernism straight lines
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Etienne Pernet DATE + DESIGNER
1905 Alfred Wagon
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Auditorium Building DATE + LOCATION
Chicago, 1886-90
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Auditorium Building DESIGNER
Louis Sullivan
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Auditorium Building Features
doesn’t look like art nouveau at first different interpretation in different locations features are in the small details
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Carson Pirie Scott Building designer
Louis Sullivan
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Art Nouveau Furniture
strange looking spaces these pieces were in are most likely gone, but museums collect the furniture left
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Dining Room DATE + DESIGNER
1900 Hector Guimard
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Kolomon Moser When and Who
(1868-1918) Austrian-Hungarian artist, Vienna Secession pieces look art nouveau and art deco/modernism
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Chaise "Escargot" DATE + DESIGNER
1902 Carlo Bugatti
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Bentwood Morris Chair Designer
Josef Hoffmann