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PAWAN KUMAR SINGH

ART NOUVEAU• Art Nouveau is considered a

"total" art style, embracing architecture, graphic art, interior design, and most of the decorative arts including jewellery, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils and lighting, as well as the fine arts. According to the philosophy of the style, art should be a way of life.

• Arthur Mackmurdo's book-cover for Wren's City Churches (1883), with its rhythmic floral patterns, is often considered the first realisation of Art Nouveau.

WALL HANGING CYCLAMEN• A description published in Pan

magazine of Hermann Obrist's wall hanging Cyclamen (1894) described it as "sudden violent curves generated by the crack of a whip", which became well known during the early spread of Art Nouveau.

• At its beginning, neither Art Nouveau nor Jugendstil was the common name of the style but was known as this in some locations, and the style had different names as it was spread.• Those two names came from, respectively, Siegfried Bing's gallery

Maison de l'Art Nouveau in Paris and the magazine Jugend in Munich,

IN ARCHITECTURE• In architecture, hyperbolas and

parabolas in windows, arches, and doors are common, and decorative mouldings 'grow' into plant-derived forms. Like most design styles, Art Nouveau sought to harmonise its forms. The text above the Paris Metro entrance uses the qualities of the rest of the iron work in the structure.

ANTONIO GAUDI• exceptional creative contribution

to the development of architecture and building technology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.• His monuments represent an

eclectic, as well as a very personal, style which was given free reign in the design of gardens, sculpture and all decorative arts, as well as architecture.

wonders of Gaudi• Casa Mila• The building is 1,323 m2 per floor

on a plot of 1,620 m2. Gaudí began the first sketches in his workshop in the Sagrada Familia, where he conceived of this house as a constant curve, both outside and inside, incorporating multiple solutions of formal geometry and elements of a naturalistic nature.

• Casa Milà is the result of two buildings, which are structured around two courtyards that provide light to the nine levels: basement, ground floor, mezzanine, main (or noble) floor, four upper floors, and an attic.

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Interior design• It has been said often that Art

Nouveau interior design is in fact the original modern style of the 20th century, as it was the first style to stop looking back in time for inspiration

• Art Nouveau was influenced by ideas of the natural world and what designers experienced around them, borrowing ideas from nature and reflecting them in magnificent fabrics and wall paper.

• From 1880 to 1910, art nouveau interior design was the height of originality and design excellence. The concept was first on show in Paris, France and then London, UK. It caused a huge fuss as people instantly loved it or loathed it.

• The two distinct looks that were commonly used by nouveau artist are rational, linear lines and curves that take on organic shapes.

• Take a look at the wonderful work created by the architect/designer Charles Rennie MacKintosh and his wife and fellow artist, Margaret MacDonald. I am very proud to be from the same city, Glasgow in bonnie Scotland.

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