Art Nouveau is a new style of art which
started in the 1880s till the World War I (1914). The development of Art
Nouveau happened in the Western Europe and the United States, but started in
Belgium. Art Nouveau was being inspired by some aspects of nature. It influenced
art, applied arts, architecture, graphic world and illustrations. Art Nouveau
has different names in different countries such as ‘Sezession stil’ in
Vienna/Austria, ‘Jugendstil’ in Germany, ‘Stile Liberty’ in Italy, ‘Modernista’
in Spain and more. Each country has its own style of Art Nouveau. “Sinuous
lines and "whiplash" curves were derived, in part, from botanical
studies and illustrations of deep-sea organisms such as those by German
biologist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834–1919) in Kunstformen der Natur (Art
Forms in Nature, 1899)”.
Short biography of Georges Fouquet:
Georges Fouquet was a French jeweller, in
Paris. He was born in 1862 and died in 1957. He stared his job of a jeweller in
1891 with his father in a family business, then the company became his in 1895.
In 1919 Fouquet’s son started to work for his company. Fouquet’s style was
based on the Art Nouveau and the Art Deco movements. He was known that he
worked with artist Alphonse Mucha to create jewellery from his designs for the Pavilion
of Bosnia-Herzegovina at the 1900 World Fair, in Paris. Alphonse Mucha was an Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist.
Brooch 1898 - 1901
Materials used: Gold, pearls, mother of pearl, delicate pliqué à jour enamel.
This brooch was designed by Georges Fouquet inspired from paphiopedilum lawrenceanum orchid and designed by Charles Desrosiers, Fouquet's main designer. the large middle pearl is very interesting and it is the main focus of this brooch. It has the charecteristics of Art Nouveau because it has those ''whiplash'' curved lines. It has an expensive look as it really is because it is made out of expensive materials.
Bibliography:
Materials used: Gold, pearls, mother of pearl, delicate pliqué à jour enamel.
This brooch was designed by Georges Fouquet inspired from paphiopedilum lawrenceanum orchid and designed by Charles Desrosiers, Fouquet's main designer. the large middle pearl is very interesting and it is the main focus of this brooch. It has the charecteristics of Art Nouveau because it has those ''whiplash'' curved lines. It has an expensive look as it really is because it is made out of expensive materials.
Bibliography:
Paul Greenhalgh, 2000, A New Style For A New Age. [online] Available at: <https://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/exhibit_intro.shtm>
[Accessed 14 April 2014].
Cybele Gontar - The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, n.d., Art Nouveau. [online]
Available at: <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/artn/hd_artn.htm>
[Accessed 14 April 2014].
Birmingham
Museums and Art Galleries, n.d., Biography
for Georges Fouquet. [online] Available at: <http://www.bmagic.org.uk/people/Georges+Fouquet>
[Accessed 14 April 2014].
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2005, Jewellery. [online] Available at: http://www.scva.ac.uk/collections/anderson/index.php?collection=29&collection_object=29
[Accessed 14 April].
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