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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Art Nouveau: Floral France, 1901, RP cotton velvet, HFYG D419 03

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Art Nouveau: Floral France, 1901, RP cotton velvet, HFYG D419_03
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Art Nouveau: Floral
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: 1901
Image Description: France, 1901, RP cotton velvet

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"ART NOUVEAU DESIGNERS favored motifs from nature, but they did not espouse social causes or argue aesthetic doctrine. The idealists of the Arts and Crafts group considered Art Nouveau a decadent style: Walter Crane is said to have described it as "that strange decorative disease," and C. F. A. Voysey believed that it was "out of character with our national character and climate." Ironically, these sinuous-lined designs are perhaps the truer realization of the Aesthetic Movement's "art for art's sake." Art Nouveau textiles and decorative objects - often produced in rich, luxurious materials for the upper end of the market - never caught on with a wide public, and unlike Art Deco have never been the subject of a popular revival. The distortions of Art Nouveau's motifs, its complexly intertwining shapes, and its sophisticated color palette may have proved vaguely disquieting to many potential customers."

Source: Design Library