Art Nouveau
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. | 1962 | ISBN: N/A | English | 328 pages | PDF | 59.1 MB


Art Nouveau is the term generally used for defining the style of art which, around 1900, had as its main theme 1 a long, sensitive, sinuous line that reminds us of seaweed or of creeping plants. Such a line might also be suggested by the way the spots are scattered in a leopard skin or by the flick of a whiplash, flowing or flaring up, moderato or jurioso, always moving in a sort of narcissistic self-delight. We likewise find it illustrated in the figures of swans on a wallpaper, or making the locks of nymphlike girls flow and undulate, or thrusting electrical blooms into space from lamp stands whose metal stems are as delicate as those of lilies