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The Art Nouveau Movement
Art Nouveau was an international style of architecture and decoration of the early 1880s and 1890, but derives from the nickname is the Maison de l'Art Nouveau, an interior design gallery which opened in Paris in 1896. The term describes how flowing organic of decorative arts that flourished in France and was very present in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and Holland, and so is the way across the Atlantic to America. The movement wanted to move away from historicism rigid and oppressive aesthetic that defined the Victorian era and a new approach. It's roots were in a large number from various sources, as Japonisme, Rococo, Renaissance, Celtic and had links to contemporary Symbolist movement. Interestingly, the forms of movement spread through magazines and shops. Art Nouveau has a massive scope, ardent supporters of the movement seen as a complete way of life, a way to break all ties with the past classic. Art Nouveau reached a high point in the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris, which showed the new style of painting all media – architecture, furniture, glass, graphic design, jewelry, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and sculpture. However, at the beginning of the First World War, the highly stylized Art Nouveau design was abandoned mainly because of how expensive it is to produce, but the cheaper, more rational modernism began to be favored. However, the Art Nouveau influenced a variety of art and design movements that continued to explore integrated design, as De Stijl, a Dutch design movement in the decade 1920, and the German Bauhaus school in the 1920s and 1930s.
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[HD] Giancarlo PARTENZI – (2009) – CIAC (Italian Center of Contemporary Art) (Foligno – Italy)