Art Nouveau: Its origins and influence on the applied arts

From: Antiques & Collecting Magazine | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

IN THE LATE 1800s, a blaze of fantastically audacious graphic invention in the world of decorative and applied art spread across the Western world. Called Art Nouveau in England, Style Moderne in France, Jugendstil in Germany and Secessionstil in Austria; critics of the emerging new style coined their own derisive names including: Noodle Style, Metro Style, Tapeworm Style, Lily Style, and others of the sort.

The term Art Nouveau (or Modern Art), was introduced to the artist's lexicon in 1881. Octave Maus and Edmund Picard of Belgium first used it in their magazine dedicated to the fine and ...

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