ART NOUVEAU
GENERAL INDRODUCTION
It was seen in art, graphic design, architecture and applied arts such as decoration, jewellery, ceramics and glass.
The French term «Art Nouveau» has emerged in Britain, along with Anglomania in France has spread the form Modern Style in the early twentieth century,
Art Nouveau is characterized by the inventiveness, the presence of rhythms, colors, ornamentation inspired by trees, flowers, insects, animals, and introducing sensitive in the everyday decor.
In art nouveau, we can find a lot of big names of Architecture:
- Victor Horta, Brussels - The hotel Tassel
- Domenech i Montaner, Barcelona - Palau de la Musica
- Antoni Gaudi, Barclone - Palau Guell, Guell Pavilions, Casa Vicens, Belles Guard, Casa Mila, Casa Batllo, Segrada familia.
-Hector Guimard - Metro Station Paris
CASA BATLLO
Casa Batlló is one of the most renowned buildings of Antoni Gaudí. It is located in the very center of Barcelona.
Like everything Gaudí designed, it is only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, has unusual tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.
There are few straight lines, and much of the façade is decorated with a colorful mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur.
A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George, which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.
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HECTOR GUIMARD
When Hector Guimard was commissioned to design these famous subway station gates, Paris
was only the second city in the world (after London) to have constructed an underground railway.
Guimard’s design answered the desire to celebrate and promote this new infrastructure with a
bold structure that would be clearly visible on the Paris streetscape.
The gate utilizes the sinuous, organic forms that are so typical of the Art Nouveau style, yet while it appears at first to be a single component, it is in fact made up of several parts that could be easily mass produced in Paris.
In effect, Guimard had concealed an aspect of the object’s modernity beneath its soft forms, a strategy that is symptomatic of Art Nouveau’s ambivalent attitude to the modern age. Ironically, perhaps, Guimard’s design was instrumental in popularizing Art Nouveau, and making the style an important early stage in the evolution of modernist design.
The gate utilizes the sinuous, organic forms that are so typical of the Art Nouveau style, yet while it appears at first to be a single component, it is in fact made up of several parts that could be easily mass produced in Paris.
In effect, Guimard had concealed an aspect of the object’s modernity beneath its soft forms, a strategy that is symptomatic of Art Nouveau’s ambivalent attitude to the modern age. Ironically, perhaps, Guimard’s design was instrumental in popularizing Art Nouveau, and making the style an important early stage in the evolution of modernist design.
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