Art-Nouveau
Art
WHAT IS ART NOUVEAU
Art-nouveau on Minitokyo
Art Nouveau (IPA: [ar nu vo]) (French for 'new art') is an international style of art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning of the 20th century (1880-1914) and is characterized by highly-stylized, flowing, curvilinear designs often incorporating floral and other plant-inspired motifs.
Dynamic, undulating, and flowing, with curved 'whiplash' lines of syncopated rhythm, characterized much of Art Nouveau. Another feature is the use of hyperbolas and parabolas. Conventional mouldings seem to spring to life and 'grow' into plant-derived forms.
Art Nouveau is considered a 'total' style, meaning that it encompasses a hierarchy of scales in design- architecture; interior design; decorative arts including jewelery, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils, and lighting; and the range of visual arts.
-see the Wikipedia page for further detail.
FEATURED ARTIST
Representatives of the Decorative Art style
Alphons Maria Mucha
Bio & Style:
Alfons Maria Mucha (or Alphonse Maria Mucha)(1860 - 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. He is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the century. Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewellery, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what came to be known as the Art Nouveau style. Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful healthy young women in flowing vaguely Neoclassical looking robes, often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed haloes behind the women's heads.
As a struggling and relatively unknown artist of Czech origin living in Paris, Mucha achieved immediate fame when, in December 1894, he accepted a commission to create a poster for one of the greatest actresses of this time, Sarah Bernhardt. The success of that first poster brought a 6 years contract between Bernhardt and Mucha.
He spent many years working on what he considered his masterpiece, The Slav Epic , a series of huge paintings depicting the history of the Slavic peoples, bestowed to the city of Prague in 1928. He had dreamt of completing a series such as this, a celebration of Slavic history, since he was young.
Source: Wikipedia
Influence:
Respectively shown below; The Dance, Princess Hyacinth, Moet and Chandon: Cremant Imperial and Moet and Chandon: White Star compared with their Final Fantasy counterparts:
PAST FEATURED ARTIST
Representatives of the Decorative Art style
Gustav Klimt
Bio & Style:
Gustav Klimt(July 14, 1862 February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. These female subjects, whether formal portraits or indolent nudes, invariably display a highly sensitized fin de siecle elegance.
Gustav Klimt's 'Golden Phase' was marked by positive critical reaction and success. Many of his paintings from this period utilized gold leaf; the prominent use of gold can first be traced back to Pallas Athene (1898) and Judith I (1901), although the works most popularly associated with this period are the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and The Kiss (1907 - 1908)
Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of art. Purchased for the Neue Galerie in New York by Ronald Lauder for a reported US $135 million, the 1907 portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I deposed Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe (sold May 5, 2004 for $104 million) as the highest reported price ever paid for a piece of art sold at a public auction, on or around June 19, 2006.
Source: Wikipedia
Influence:
*Klimt is well recognized in the anime world for having directly influenced the Opening sequence of the 2004 anime Elfen Lied. Even further, it is clear that the images displayed during the opening are "ripoffs" of his most popular paintings.
*The 2004 anime Gankutsuou has some artistic correlations with the Jugendsil style, especially color sheme and use of patterns and textures applied on specific areas.
*Klimt is also known to be cited by Yoshitaka Amano for being a strong influence.
Galleries:
-WikiMedia's related gallery
-Elfen Lied scans of the Opening sequence on AnimePaper
-Textures Patterns & Brushes for download
WHERE TO GET ART NOUVEAU
Resources, Scans and Information
Architechture:
Mostly in European cities you can find marvelous examples of the flourishing style on pretty much anything public or private. Main cities: Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Glasgow, Barcelona, Prague, Amsterdam, Milan, Kiev, Berlin, The Hague, New York City
Books:
You can browse on online stores like amazon or ebay for any Artbook or History of Art related book.
Suggested Titles:
comming soon! ;D
Online:
- Downloadable fonts
- Wallpapers, scans and vectors on RevolutionApparel
- Wallpapers on DA! DesktopAnime
- Wallpapers on InkyMonday
from specific artists:
- Saikusa's gallery of Mucha scans
- Large A. Mucha gallery
- Download a tutorial on how to recreate Klimt's "The Kiss" with Photoshop
MiniTokyo non-member Gallery
Here are a few categories where you can find lightly to heavily inspired scans from diverse Manga-ka and animation studios:
Selected Gallery Items
- Love Bubbles by
Myaje
- Cowgirls by Myaje
- boogiepop scan by
ghoma
- How do I brush my hair? by
zakaro
- MATSURI Venom Artworks
Collection - Ragnarok 01 by Castervn
- Saki Aesthetic by
Hachiko
- sw24 by lthnadml
- OVA Box by platina
- Oh My Darling - Art
Nouveau 01 by plumeris
- reko by linus
- "Choi, Yoon Jung
Artwork 02" by calisqo
- "Choi, yoon jung art
01" by calisqo
- Four Ladies of PSO by
Myaje
- Art Noveau FF7 by
Myaje
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if someone feels like working on a feature or killing the old or doing whatever, feel free. I won't have time in the next... months?
Farewell | Separation by gaara-no-shukaku and MapleRose
Looks like the DVD covers for Key Princess Story Eternal Alice use some Nouveau-styled framing.
merged: 01-22-2008 ~ 11:47am
AMG: Le Soleil Radieux by Tama-Neko
If I ever start on Gaudi I'll just keel teh others and add a "past features" section to link out to wikipedia or something short like that.
btw I bought this Klimt artbook that made my heart and wallet shiver
Merveille de la technique--dedicated to A.Mucha's works
oh ok,
so can i join
It's a straight vector of official aa megamisama artwork. It isn't art nouveau. It is beautiful, but it isn't art nouveau.
hey everybody
id really like to join this group, and i have some art-nouveau plans for a long time =)
ph btw, can this vector be concidered as art-nouvea?