From Arts and crafts to Art nouveau
- Relative peace and prospertity in continental Europe
- Longer and upper middle classes that could support new and experimental directions
- Developpment of Art nouveau
Art nouveau:
- Different developments born around Europe were quite unrelated to one other
- Liberty style
- Jugenstil
- Modernism
- Style liberty
- Vienna secession
- Characteristics that make Art nouveau design recognizable
- Rejection of any historic imitation
- Modern materials, modern techniques
Victor Horta(1861-1947):
- which rejected historical styles
- begining of modern
architecture
- abstract principle
- from relations to
environment
- generated references ideas of many modernist
Henri Van de velde (1863-1957):
- developped a highly
detailed style
- concrete as an
expressive element
- ornemental designs
- Art nouveau desire to create everything in a new and unified mode
- promoting the ideals of a new and progressive
direcction in design
Antonio Gaudi(1852-1926):
- sensous curving, almost surreal design style
- the ennovative leader of spanish Art nouveau
- he juxtaposed unrelated systems
- characteristically warped from gothic architecture
Charles R mackintosh(1868-1928):
- scottish architect, designer, and artist
- asian style and emerging modernist ideas also
influenced
Emile Galle(1846-1904):
- worked in glass
- one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movment
Josef Hoffman(1870-1956):
- met Joseph Maria
Olbrich
- Founded the vienna
secession in 1897
- he designed installations spaces for Secession exhibitions and a House for Moser.
- Adolf Loos (1870-1933) :
- was an architect and designer associated with secession for a time, but he became
disenchanted with what he regarded as the superficial decorative concerns of the movment.
He attempt to make a clear association between ornament as inappropriate to modern
mechanized productions is central to much of the design of the twentieth century.
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