Period stylebook for commercial artists reproduced in it’s original coloration from only existing copy features 60 plates from three great artists. 60 plates in full color. Publisher’s Note.

Art Nouveau Designs in Color

Arts & Photography

Verneuil, M. P.

Mucha, Alphonse Marie

Venreuil, Maurice Pillard

Auriol, George

Graphic Design

Dover Pubns

Dover Publications, 1985. Trade paperback. (ISBN 0-486-24916-6) Good tight copy, good wrappers. Perhaps the greatest master of the Art Nouveau style, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) achieved instant fame in 1894 with a striking poster promoting Sarah Bernhardt in "Gismonde." For the next decade, his posters and illustrations for books and magazines dominated the sophisticated arena of French design. This inexpensive volume reproduces 30 exceptional plates from a rare limited edition of Mucha's work, comprising a treasury of the master's distinctive designs in their original full colors. Magnificent, elaborate floral borders are arranged in sinuous curves and harmoniously tinted in in subdued, luminous shades of pink, yellow, green aqua, brown and orange. Lush poppies, irises, orchids, morning glories, passionflowers and other blossoms mingle with foliate patterns and stylized vines. Chosen for ornamental appeal and as inspiration for artists, these 30 glorious borders are ideal for framing text or copy on advertisements, posters, bookplates, stationary, menus, illustrations and a host of other graphic projects. Artists, illustrators and connoisseurs of fine art will appreciate "Mucha's Floral Borders" for their sheer, unsurpassed beauty and remarkable utility. Art, craft.

Mucha's Floral Borders: 30 Full Color Art Nouveau Designs

Decorative Arts & Design

Mucha

Rizzoli

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was one of the most important decorative artists working in Paris at the turn of the century. His distinctive and original posters and his decorative panels in le style Mucha became almost synonymous with French Art Nouveau. The admirer and iconographer of Sarah Bernhardt, he was also well known as the creator of familiar advertisements and as a book illustrator. Yet there was much more to Mucha's achievement than this. At the height of his career as a decorative artist, he became convinced that art should serve ideas, he became chief artistic and cultural adviser to the interwar Czech government, and he completed a major and controversial fresco cycle, the Slav Epic, as well as portraits and large symbolic paintings.
This book -- the first full-scale treatment of Mucha's oeuvre -- includes discussions and reproductions of paintings, posters, panneaux decoratifs, pastels, drawings, and illustrations from throughout his career. In addition, the authors provide essays on Mucha's Paris years; his association with Sarah Bernhardt; the importance of American patronage on his later work; his graphic and painterly techniques; and the problems connected with the conservation of the large canvases.
This lavishly illustrated book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Mucha's work that will tour the United States, beginning in San Diego in 1998.

Alphonse Mucha--The Spirit of Art Nouveau

Arwas, Victor

Art Services International

Brabcová-Orlíková, Jana

Dvorák, Anna

Dvoiak, Anna

Individual Artists

San Diego Museum of Art

The creator of Art Nouveau's greatest beauties Alfons Mucha’s is an art of seduction. His graceful women, delicate colors, and decorative style add up to an unashamed act of temptation. Mucha (1860-1939), whose work is indissolubly linked with the Art Nouveau style, was one of the most fascinating artistic personalities of the turn of the 20th century. He was not only a painter and graphic artist, but also took an interest in sculpture, jewelry, interior decorating, and utilitarian art. His particular talents, however, lay in decorative graphics, which was the basis of his fame and remains so today. This book traces all aspects of his career via biographical and descriptive texts and a wide selection of images. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:<ul>
<li>a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance</li> <li>a concise biography</li> <li>approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul>

Ulmer, Renate

History & Criticism

Taschen America, LLC

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