Art Nouveau

K E L O M P O K  4
 ART NOUVEAU
INTRODUCTION

AN INTERNATIONAL STYLE AND PHILOSOPHY IN

ART, ARCHITECTURE AND APPLIED ART,
ESPECIALLY DECORATIVE ART, WHICH IS A
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT WHERE THE
EXPRESSION LIMITATION IS BETWEEN PURE ART
AND USED ART.
ART NOUVEAU

ORIGIN
Taken from a shop in Paris “Maison
de i’ART NOUVEAU”

Place that shows objects that have

the features of Art Nouveau flow
design
 A reaction to indrustrialization and machine style which is
considerred to eliminate human nature in art and the manufactire of
goods of human needs

many carvings of flora and fauna that appear excessive to

emphasize their skills and very emotional nature

BACKGROUND
APPLICATION: architecture, furniture, sculpture, household
furniture, jewelry, textiles, book samples

This art is intended to be enjoyed by many people (popular art) but

in reality it is more widely applied in arts and goods consumed by
the rich.
 THE ELEMENT OF NATURE
HIGHLY STYLE
SURGING WAVES
CURVED ARCH
ASYMMETRICAL SHAPE
SOMETIMES NUANCED EROTIC

CHARACTERISTIC
ART NOVEAU
 Pre-Raphaelite painters (Edward Burnejones and Dante
Gabriel Rosetti)

ANCIENT ART: egypt and asiria, far east, traditional arts

INSPIRATION
natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and
flowers.
FORM OF INSPIRATION
ANIMALS :  JELLYFISH, CORAL REEFS, PROTOZOA,
BIRDS
PLANTS : ROSE, ORCHID, LILY, FUSCHIA
AMORPHOUS FORM
FEMALE BODY SHAPE AND CHARACTERISTIC : BIG
HIPS, SMALL WAIST, LONG HAIR
HAIR
WATER RIPPLES
 EVOLUTION : INTEREST IN NATURAL
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF
TECHNOLOGY
1872 : INVENTION OF MICROSCOPE 
INSECT RESEARCH : DISCOVER MORE COLORS (ON
BUTTERFLY WINGS, BEETLES, DRAGONFLIES,
SPIDERS)

COLOR INSPIRATION
ART NOVEAU
MAJOLIKAHAUS,
vienna
AN APARTMENT HOUSING OF
RETAIL 
WAS DESIGNE D BY : OT T O
WAGNER,1899

MAJOLIKA REFERS TO COLORFUL TIN

GLAZED
 FACADE
ART NOUVEAU

Its facade is fully cover with

majolika
Facade gives the house
trademark lookWith colorful
floral motifs
The house take its name from
its “Majolika tiles” .Majolika
historically referse to decorated
tin-glazed pottery from
renaissance italy
The facade was designed by Alois
ludwig
The facade was not only
decorative but also had
particular purpose. The facade
can be easily cleaned by using
fire horses
Sill decoreted with foliage
Decorated entrance
STAIRWAY OF MAJOLICAHAUS
 SPACE
The bottom 2 floors are treated as a base with ironwork that extends
ORGANIZATION the influence of the shops up into the second floor with a narrow
balcony.

There is gradation of detail and color from bottom to the top with
the green iron based , a gradual increase of floral from red to green
towards to roof finally capped with lion heads in relief

The barrier between this building with another uses a zone of

balconies
 Casa Batlló,
barcelona
CASA DELS OSSOS (HOUSE OF
BONES) 6 FLOORS
DESIGNED BY : LL UÍS SAL A
SÁNCHEZ, 1877
RE-DESIGN BY : ANTONI GA UDI,
1904-1906
 FACADE
ART NOUVEAU

Decorated with mosaic that made of broken

tiles
has large oval windows in the center of the
stone pillars in the shape of bones and
“masks” on balconies
The balconies appear fragments of skulls
with the openings of the eyes and nose
Roof’s arched profile resemble dragon’s
spine
A cross with four arms pointing north, south,
east and west rises from the roof’s other
main element, a tower
Dancing Figure from the
Table Centrepiece ‘Dance
with Scarves’, french

DESIGNED BY : AGATHON L É ONA R D,

1841-1923
HEIGHT 47.5 CM
HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST. PETERSBURG,
RUSSIA
ONE OF 14 FEMALE STATUES THAT DANCE
AND PLAY MUSIC
 Maude Adams
(1872-1953) as
Joan of Arc
WAS DESIGNE D BY : AL PHONSE
MARIE MUCHA, 1909

82 1/4 X 30 INCHES (208.9 X 76.2 CM)

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NY
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