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Barcelona 1900.(Report from Europe)(art nouveau exhibit)(Brief article)
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Barcelona underwent a fundamental change from being a quiet, somewhat isolated, backwater to one of the most innovative and vibrant places in Europe. The Exposicion Universal, held there in 1888, brought the city into contact with modern styles. Around the same time, the rise of industry in the region generated an increasingly wealthy bourgeoisie who commissioned artists and architects to create new work.
All of this fostered a climate in which artists struck out in new directions, and for the next thirty years Barcelona became a beacon of modem art and architecture. In particular, a version of art nouveau known as modemisme catala (Catalan modernism) evolved; its primary features are the representations and objects characterized by elegant ...
- DANGEROUS CURVES.(various artists, art nouveau, National Gallery of Art,...
- Magazine article from: House Beautiful FILLER, MARTIN October 1, 2000 700+ words
...astonished the late Victorian world, Art Nouveau again spreads its glittering...National Gallery Whatever happened to Art Nouveau? A generation ago, at the height...late-sixties counterculture, Art Nouveau was rediscovered by young admirers...
- Revisiting the Style of ART NOUVEAU.
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) GREENHALGH, PAUL September 1, 2000 700+ words
"Art Nouveau's modernity was achieved through the...the history of decorative art." THE ART NOUVEAU (French for "new art") movement...modernism of the dawning 20th century, Art Nouveau spread throughout Europe and major American...
- ART NOUVEAU 1890-1914.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques GREENHALGH, PAUL April 1, 2000 700+ words
...designers and artists associated with the art nouveau style were in exactly this position...to survive it too had to change. The art nouveau designers were the first to take on...travelling exhibition on the theme of art nouveau that opens at the Victoria and Alberta...
- BRUSSELS' ART NOUVEAU: LETTING IN THE LIGHT
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Christine Temin, Globe Staff January 8, 1989 700+ words
...Horta, one of the leaders of Brussels' Art Nouveau movement. If this city has an architectural...buildings in the ground-breaking modernist Art Nouveau style. Every once in a while, amid...behind them was soundly progressive: Art Nouveau, a term taken from the name of the...
- Museum, home of Horta culture; Architect an art-nouveau leader.(TRAVEL)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 20, 2002 700+ words
...to one of the major architects of the art-nouveau style. Victor Horta designed not only...s most influential practitioners of art nouveau. "It is hardly surprising that Victor...excellent examples of Horta's work in art nouveau, a style of design and decor devoted...
- Art Nouveau Accessories Are Now Old Favorites
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Anne Gilbert September 11, 1994 700+ words
...in jewelry design occurred in the Art Nouveau years, from 1895 to 1910, when...nature and femininity, so popular in Art Nouveau furniture, silver and textiles, were duplicated in jewelry. Art Nouveau jewelry showed a dramatic break...
- A Glorious Jungle of Art Nouveau.(exhibition at National Gallery of Art)
- Magazine article from: World and I GREER, HERB October 1, 2000 700+ words
...the myriad roots and persuasions of Art Nouveau comes this month to Washington's National...supposes himself to be. In the case of Art Nouveau, the claim (though it was never made...society imagined by the founders of Art Nouveau did not, of course, exist at that...
- Art Nouveau: Politics and Style.
- Magazine article from: History Today Greenhalgh, Paul April 1, 2000 700+ words
...THE OPENING AT THE V & A of `Art Nouveau 1890-1914', the largest exhibition...plethora of socio-cultural debates, Art Nouveau immediately became a dominating subject...presented by both, the creators of Art Nouveau made it a cause to be argued over during...
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