Art Nouveau:
- Starts within the Arts and Craft's movement
- Begins in France
- Youth style: Style for young people/kids/teens
- Influences of asian aesthetic
- Around until about 1914
- 1914: WWI
- Branding is starting to develop
- Starts in Europe and takes a long time to come to America
- Covers/art created in Europe and shipped to USA
- Popularity and growth of art journals
- Flat panels of color were popular
- What id dimension?
- What is flat?
- Abstraction
- Overlapping
- Copy + Paste
- Harper's Covers
- Illustration based
- Starts to become more abstract
- Playing with spacial relationships
- Lippencott's Covers
- Flat backgrounds
- Influenced by Harper's
- Influenced by Morrison
- Used Morrison's works as inspiration for his work
- Influenced, also, by asian design
- Flat
- Negative space
- Abstract form
- Dark sensuality to his work
Alphonse Mucha:
- Gets a big job that changes art
- Sarah Bernard commissioned Mucha
- Mucha got his reference from past art
- Didn't finish project= new aesthetic
- Mucha was influenced by asian design
- Mucha draws amazingly
- Abstraction is a dominant
Charles Ray Macintosh:
- Working with abstraction
- Androgyny was popular
- Sexual experiments in art
- "The Four"
- 4 students with similar art-forms and techniques
- Immediately click when put together
- Purvy artists
- The Glasgow School
- Rectilinear structure
- Uses Curvilinear structure for interior
- Very spiritual -- it shows in their motifs
- Purvy artists
Versacrum:
- Versacrum = Magazing
- metaphors within artwork
- Tree busting out of the pot
- The fruit>three=three guys> phallic symbols
- Influenced by French Art Nouveau
- A lot of experimentation
- Going against "The Man"
Peter Barrings
- Circles and Squares
- 1st Identity logo
- geometric shapes
- typography
- metaphors in designs
- honeycomb motif
- "it takes more than one man"
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