In the early 20th century, J. C. Leyendecker rose to prominence as an illustrator whose work was seen everywhere from soap ...

A headturner of a townhouse is selling in Brussels, where its whimsical Art Nouveau roofline stands out even among the grand homes of the city’s central Ixelles neighborhood. Architect ...

Although printed in small numbers, Art Nouveau specimens are abundant ... Adding to this is an equally crucial factor: the subject. Posters from World War I, piously preserved by soldiers, do ...

Continuing our Art Deco ... from art nouveau, cubism and surrealism. Among his best-known works are those associated with a new era of travel, including a cubism-inspired poster for the Nord ...

Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a ... became an instantly recognizable element of art nouveau, the style Mucha helped lead to lasting popularity through ...

In 1894, the renowned actress Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923) tapped the Parisian studio Lemercier to create a last-minute poster for her ... leading lights of the Art Nouveau style movement ...

American museums during the war. PMA will soon display three of its copies in the April exhibit "Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s." The poster studio, an offshoot of the state-owned news agency ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alphonse Mucha won overnight fame in Belle Époque Paris on New Year’s Day 1895, when one of his sinuous ...

Curators at the Dayton Art ... nouveau,” said Smith. The style of decorative art, architecture, and design was prominent in western Europe and the United States from about 1890 until World War ...

Sarah Bernhardt, the lead actress of the upcoming play, Gismonda, didn’t like the production’s promotional poster and wanted ... fashionable yet nascent Art Nouveau style, it depicts Bernhardt ...

Art nouveau could be said to be the first 20th century modern style. It was the first style to stop looking backwards in history for ideas, taking inspiration instead from what it saw around it ...

Besiki Kutateladze is passionate about Art Nouveau architecture, a nature-inspired style popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Growing up in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia ...