ART NOUVEAU
History
This was an art movement that was done in the fields of art and architecture around the 18th and 19th century. Art Nouveau means "New Style" and its characteristics are plant motifs, stylised and organic forms. In relation to graphic design, it got its popularity in through artistic posters, and book production.
It was also used for different types of arts like advertisements, typography among others that was heavily decorated for displaying work (Design is history, 2010).
Main artists involved in this movement were Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustva Klimt among others (Artcyclopedia, 2015).Characteristics for this movement
-The use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was mostly used in architecture, jewelry, interior design, posters and glass design, and illustration.
- There were use of asymmetrical line often making forms of flower stalks, vine tendrils, insect wings among others. The line would be infused with a whiplike force done rhythmically (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2017).
HISTORICAL PAINTING
- There were use of asymmetrical line often making forms of flower stalks, vine tendrils, insect wings among others. The line would be infused with a whiplike force done rhythmically (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2017).
HISTORICAL PAINTING
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| The Tree of Life, Gustav Klimt 1905
The artist uses a richness of symbols, gold for paint and other luxurious techniques to illustrate a magical world (Gustav Klimt.com, 2011)
The tree of Life is a symbolic image that associates life and death and heaven and earth. The roots of the tree begin underground, in the realm of the underworld. The trunk then breaks through to the earth and rises to the sky. The upper tree branches curl, twist and intertwine as they connect to the heavens or sky. So, the Tree of Life represents the continuity of life as well as its complexities. It unites all elements of life (Study.com, 2017).
So in this painting, Klimt used organic forms in a flattened way for example the branches twist, twirl, turn, spiral and undulate, creating a tangle of strong branches, long vines and fragile threads, an expression of life's complexity.
MODERN PAINTING
John Tyler Christopher made this digital illustration in context of the Art Nouveau style. This is seen by use of organic forms especially the patterns that are in a blue circle in the background. There is also Use of a long, sinuous, organic line for example the whishlike form that starts from the background and passes by his thighs to the front in low opacity and lastly the geometric shapes used to make details on Iron mans body armor.
Conclusion.
All in all, Art Nouveau was a very geometric and organic movement that used stylised way of illustrating paintings.
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