Art Nouveau my album

"Art Nouveau is easily recognized by its linear and often asymmetrical ornamentation of floral motifs and geometric shapes. Undulating flowing lines and shapes modeled on plants characterize its mostly decorative appearance. Water plants, magnolias and lilies, but also swans, cranes, flames and blowing hair are popular motifs of Art Nouveau artists and associate similar moods to contemporary poetry. They decorate shadowless as graphics books, wallpapers, fabrics or are plastically incorporated into facades, furniture or interiors. Furniture was adapted to the organic movement functions of the body. Recurring forms from earlier styles are returned to evolved lines. Despite the deliberately programmatic, stylistic new beginning, historical and exotic models are recognizable."

quoted : Oldenburger Landesmuseum after an exhibition from 2005.

In the early period until around 1900, curved lines borrowed from nature and abstracted were the typical feature of Art Nouveau, later geometric ornaments predominated (examples of the latter can be seen in the Bahlsen Artworks)

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"Art Nouveau is easily recognized by its linear and often asymmetrical ornamentation of floral motifs and geometric shapes. Undulating flowing lines and shapes modeled on plants characterize its mostly decorative appearance. Water plants, magnolias and lilies, but also swans, cranes, flames and blowing hair are popular motifs of Art Nouveau artists and associate similar moods to contemporary poetr…  (read more)

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