Art Nouveau's fifteen-year peak was strongly felt throughout Europe—from Glasgow to Moscow to Spain—but its influence was global. Consequently, it is known in various guises with frequent localized tendencies.
Art nouveau fell out on favour of the modernist styles in the 20th century. Today Art Nouveau is considered the bridge between neoclassicism and modernism.Four houses of Victor Horta were included as works of human creative genius, these are outstanding examples of Art Nouveau architecture illustrating the transition from the 19th to the 20th century in art and society, Magazines like Jugend helped spread the style in Germany, especially as a graphic artform.Art Nouveau is an approach to design according to which artists should work on everything from architecture to furniture, making art part of everyday life.
William Morris
William Morris was an English architect,funiture designer,artist,writer. He was a socialist, this lead that he went to the great exibition and he didn´t like what he saw because it was too excesive.After this event he founded the English .
He was born in east london,he was educated at Oxford.In 1856 he founded a magazine, an outlet for his poetry and a forum for the development of his theories in decorative arts.In 1861,Morris founded a design firm with other artists. Morris had also a large contributor to the use of traditional and methods of production.
William Morris was an important figure of socialism in England,founding the socialist league in 1884,but breaking with the movement.William Morris worked for the rest of his life to the Kelmscott press that was founded by himself in 1891.
Textiles were one of the most important offerings of William Morris firm,in 1883 he wrote “Almost all the designs we use for surface decoration, wallpapers, textiles, and the like, I design myself. I have had to learn the theory and to some extent the practice of , and : all of which I must admit has given me and still gives me a great deal of enjoyment.”Willam Morris prefered flat use of line and colour instead of three dimensional shading.
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