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Nouveau roman Nouveau roman
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Theatre du Nouveau Monde Theatre du Nouveau Monde
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Peter Max Peter Max
Peter Max 1937-, American artist, b. Berlin. Max is noted for his undulating graphic designs in bright, vibrating colors. His style has influenced much commercial art. It is reminiscent of art nouveau and comic strip art, incorporating psychedelic colors in floral and celestial motifs.... Read more
knotwork knotwork
knotwork. Interlacing carved cord or ribbon ornament, occurring at many times and in many styles. Obvious examples are the intricate patterns in Anglo-Saxon and Celtic design, but it also occurs in arabesque, Art Nouveau, Moorish architecture, and strapwork, to name but a few examples.Bibliography... Read more
art nouveau art nouveau
art nouveau , decorative-art movement centered in Western Europe. It began in the 1880s as a reaction against the historical emphasis of mid-19th-century art, but did not survive World War I. Art nouveau originated in London and was variously called Jugendstil in Germany, Sezessionstil in... Read more
Rene Lalique Rene Lalique
René Lalique French glassware and jewelry designer René Lalique (1860–1945) is recognized as one of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries' finest creators of Art Deco and Art Nouveau decorative items. Lalique's glassware was both stylistically and technologically... Read more
Hector Guimard Hector Guimard
Guimard, Héctor (1867–1942). French Art Nouveau architect, he was influenced by Viollet-le-Duc and Horta. He designed Castel Béranger, 16 Rue de la Fontaine, Paris (1894–9), an apartment-block of rubble, coloured brick, stone, and faïence, with an entrance in a fully... Read more
Hermann Obrist Hermann Obrist
Obrist, Hermann (1862–1927). Swiss Arts-and-Crafts designer influential in art and architecture before the 1914–18 war. He was the major figure in the establishment of the Vereinigte Werkstätten (United Workshops) in Munich (1895), and his designs helped to promote Art Nouveau.... Read more
Ferdinand Hodler Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler , 1853-1918, Swiss painter and lithographer. At first he worked in an ornamental style akin to art nouveau. Inclined toward mysticism, he visited Paris in 1891 and was attracted to the symbolist group around Gauguin. Hodler then evolved his own powerful means of expression with... Read more
Elihu Vedder Elihu Vedder
Vedder, Elihu (1836–1923), painter known for his mystical subjects treated in a symbolic manner and his book illustrations, of which those made for the Rubáiyát (1884) are in the sensuous vein of Art Nouveau. He was long expatriated, as described in his rambling, whimsical memoir,... Read more

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