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Victoria Charles,Patrick Bade

Alphonse Mucha

Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known to insiders as the “Mucha style” for the legions of imitators who adapted the master’s celebrated tableaux. Today, his distinctive depictions of lithe young women in classical dress have become a pop cultural touchstone, inspiring album covers, comic books, and everything in between. Patrick Bade and Victoria Charles offer readers an inspiring survey of Mucha’s career, illustrated with over one hundred lustrous images, from early Parisian advertisements and posters for Sandra Bernhardt, to the famous historical murals painted just before his death, at the age of 78, in 1939.
223 printed pages
Copyright owner
Parkstone International
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted7 years ago
    In the enchanting art of glass, one of the world’s oldest arts, and one that seemed to have exhausted every conceivable combination of line and colour, every quest for a perfect union between stones, precious metals, and enamel, between chasing and the gluing of precious stones and pearls, Lalique was a genius who could surprise, dazzle, and delight the eye with new and truly exquisite colourations in all his creations, with the fantasy and the charm of his imagination with which he animated them, and with his bold and inexhaustible creativity
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted7 years ago
    Clément Massier, Albert Dammouse, and Auguste Delaherche exhibited flambé stoneware in new forms and colours; and Henri Vever, Boucheron and Lucien Falize exhibited silver and jewellery that showed new refinements.

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