Thank you for sharing all of the art nouveau with us! This style is a balm for me. but will you be deleting this blog???
No, I will leave it up as long as I can (So others can discover it) :)
It is with a heavy heart that I'm going to be retiring from this blog. I started it on here way back in 2012 not knowing what it would expand into. It was a great outlet to help me with depression and going to college. I made it my mission to find some of the most beautiful objects and buildings that people made and collect them all in one place. I think I was mostly successful with that mission.
Right now I haven't had the time nor energy to devote to scouring the web for these beautiful things. I think I'm starting to recover from my lifelong depression and am taking a more active approach in my life.
I will always love Art Nouveau I think, and sharing these wonderful works of art and craftsmanship inspired a lot of people. My favorite part of blogging was discovering talented artists of today who had not yet found their audience and promoting them on the blog.
(Longer rambling here)
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"Purple Dream", gold leaf and oil on canvas, by Josiah Jamison, 2022. (Artist's website: https://www.josiahjamison.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/josiahjamison/)
Art Nouveau designs taken from ‘Esquisses Décoratives’ by René Binet, Gustave Geffroy.
Published early 1900′s by Librairie centrale des beaux-arts, Paris.
Smithsonian Libraries.
archive.org
Moon Vases by Stephanie Young available today between 6 & 9pm est. online at Calmwater Designs.
"The Castel Béranger is a residential building with thirty-six apartments located at 14 rue de la Fontaine in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed by the architect Hector Guimard, and built between 1895 and 1898. It was the first residence in Paris built in the style known as Art Nouveau."
(Images/text via Wikipedia/wikicommons)
The extraordinary Watts Cemetery Chapel. A late 19th century Arts & Crafts masterpiece, designed by Mary Watts. Inside, a jewellery box of Pre-Raphaelite style angels, twines of art nouveau trees, wild flowers, complex dualities in images and symbols. A drowning in gold and colour.
The first in (I hope) a series! (Which I started a few months ago but I didn’t want to just dump ALL MY WORK AT ONCE on here, so you’re getting it now.) The birth flowers of March are the Daffodil and Jonquil. Why do months have ‘birth flowers’? I’ll tell you…I don’t know. It might be a Victorian flower language thing, but for all I know it might go back a lot further. The important thing is that flowers are pretty and I like them.
Great work!!
blondebrainpower
Unknown Maker, Belt Buckle, ca. 1900.
Gilt copper alloy.
Collection of Richard H. Driehaus.
Happy World Art Nouveau Day!!
Summer (from “The Seasons”) by Alphonse Mucha (1896)
Wesołego Światowego Dnia Secesji! :) (naprawdę, to dzisiaj)
Kraków ul. Szpitalna 30 kamienica z XVI w. foto z 18 czerwca 2018
Witraż zrealizowany między 1902 a 1904 r. przez Krakowski Zakład Witrażów S.G. Żeleński według projektu przypisywanego Stanisławowi Wyspiańskiemu.
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Happy World Art Nouveau Day! :) (yes, it’s today)
Kraków, Poland 30 Szpitalna St. house built in 16th c. taken on 18 June 2018
Stained-glass window made between 1902-1904 by the S.G.Żeleński Stained-Glass Workshop in Kraków. The design is commonly ascribed to Stanisław Wyspiański.
If any of you are a fan of online drawing challenges, know that #Artnouveaumermay is going on right now! Basically drawing mermaids for the month of May, but with an art nouveau theme. I’ve been in awe of the talent over on Instagram and elsewhere. Worth a look!
Art Nouveau furniture at the Musée D'Orsay in Paris
Photos by Charles Reeza
Semiramis Vase, stoneware with glazed cabochons and gilded decoration, 1904-06, by Amphora Porzellanfabrik, Czech Republic
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
