Module 5 post - Art Noveau A great time in my opinion

Art Noveau arose from a gallery that was named L’Art Noveau that was collection of Japanese ukiyo-e art and the new artists of the Arts and Crafts movement seeking to express new methods of design and art.  The 19^th Century was greatly influenced by Eurpean powers, England and France, expanding trade and America exercising its power in the Pacific. These countries and Japan and China intersected and cultural and commercial trade started. Japan’s rule under the Shogun Tokogun was ending the isolationist and expanding trade. One export was its art ukiyo-e.  This art was based on drawing and woodblock art based on entertainment districts in feudal Japan and later the woodblock art prints. The unique art was based on traditional art methods and married the art of Japanese calligraphy and realism of nature, and a idealistic rendering of female form. The latter is similar in concept t Art Noveau’s style of goddess like women as drawn by Cheret and Mucha.

During the latter part of the 19^th Century and beginning of the 20^th Century the influence of Victorian social norms and realism on the morals, arts and graphic was ending and the new Arts and Crafts movements was beginning  and moving into the new art era of Modernism. The latter expressed a more natural approach and free form of art blended with a more linear and rectangular form, as well as industrial graphics. American Frank Lloyd Wright was greatly influenced by this era bringing about transformable changes in design, architecture and artistic influence. This period of American art based on Wright is my favorite.

Another favorite of the Modern art era is Klimst, Japanese traditional art for ukiyo-e and the poster art of Cheret.