Christie's Art Nouveau

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1 n association with Christie's the wonderful world of Art Nouveau is revealed in beautiful colour. Furniture, Jewellery, Silver & Metalwork, Sculpture, Glass, Ceramics, ttgj Posters & Graphics
Ín Art Nouveau the decorative arts truly flowered: twining stems supported delicately carved waterlily tables, poppies glowed in the stained glass of a Tiffany lamp, and irises, roses and lilies were recurrent motifs in jewellery, fabrics and metalwork. This was a flowering, too, of artistic interpretation, a reaction against the stolid revivalism of Victoriana but with none of the starkness of the modernism that was to follow. Nature, rather than architecture or the past, became the stimulus. A new style emerged, provocatively curvaceous, that caught the hedonism in the turnof-the century air on both sides of the Atlantic, and ran through all forms of art from furniture and glassware to posters and the Paris Métro signs. And when, in 1895, La Maison de l'Art Nouveau opened in Paris, this... Tovább

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1 n association with Christie's the wonderful world of Art Nouveau is revealed in beautiful colour. Furniture, Jewellery, Silver & Metalwork, Sculpture, Glass, Ceramics, ttgj Posters & Graphics
Ín Art Nouveau the decorative arts truly flowered: twining stems supported delicately carved waterlily tables, poppies glowed in the stained glass of a Tiffany lamp, and irises, roses and lilies were recurrent motifs in jewellery, fabrics and metalwork. This was a flowering, too, of artistic interpretation, a reaction against the stolid revivalism of Victoriana but with none of the starkness of the modernism that was to follow. Nature, rather than architecture or the past, became the stimulus. A new style emerged, provocatively curvaceous, that caught the hedonism in the turnof-the century air on both sides of the Atlantic, and ran through all forms of art from furniture and glassware to posters and the Paris Métro signs. And when, in 1895, La Maison de l'Art Nouveau opened in Paris, this sensuous style at last got itself a name. A century on, the whiplash curves and voluptuous imagery of Art Nouveau continue to seduce and are avidly sought by collectors. Fiona Gallagher draws from the treasury of the Christie archives to teli the story of Liberty pewterware and Gallé glass, Raoul Larche's languid bronzé women and Georg Jensen silverware, and the classic Thonet chair copied in a millión wine bars, all part of the artistic revolution that changed the face of the decorative arts. With magnificent reproductions, Christie 's Art Nouveau establishes exactly how important the movement was in throwing off the shackles of the past for artists, architects and designers alike and how it was a period that witnessed great beauty, startiing originality and clearness of vision. This is a book for art-lovers, historians and collectors and enthusiasts of an art movement that changed the face of modern art. Vissza