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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Art Nouveau: Conversational France, 1895, designed by M. P. Verneuil, from L'Animal dans la Decoration D417 02

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Art Nouveau: Conversational France, 1895, designed by M. P. Verneuil, from L'Animal dans la Decoration D417_02
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Art Nouveau: Conversational
Media Type Textile Design
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Creator(s): Unknown
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Contributor: Design Library
Country France
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Publication Date: 1895
Image Description: France, 1895, designed by M. P. Verneuil

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"THE PERIOD OF Art Nouveau lasted from the late 1880s to about 1910; it was a fin-de-siecle style, although its very name, "new art," showed a desire to abandon the past and to embrace the future. The movement began in Britain but spread quickly through Europe, called stile Liberty in Italy (after Liberty's, the trend-setting London department store), Jugendstil in Germany, Sezessionstil in Austria, Modernista in Spain, and style moderne in France. Number 1 was designed by Alphonse Mucha, the Parisian expatriate Czech artist particularly remembered today for his posters. Mucha was so closely associated with Art Nouveau that the Parisian art critic Edmond Goncourt referred to it as "style Mucha." The snails in number 5 illustrate the decorative power of Art Nouveau: most fabric designers would have avoided them altogether because of their suggestion of sliminess, but here their silver trails become positively elegant."

Source: Design Library