Module 3 Art Nouveau Flash Cards

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Flashcards on Module 3 Art Nouveau Flash Cards, created by Alex Days on 12/07/2015.
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New Forms of Art that inspired Art Nouveau (Idea) >Loie Fuller >Hokusai Prints
Gallerie des Machines (Building) >Paris, 1889 >Rational >Example of new 20th century design
Eiffel Tower (Building) >Paris, 1889 >Used manufacturing to prefab iron pieces for faster construction >Didn't plan on letting it stay, built it just to prove they could
Art Nouveau (Vocab) Search for "modern language" without reference to past precedents.
Characteristics of Art Nouveau (Idea) >Orientation towards future >Fundamentally optimistic >Almost no strict, classical symmetry >Continuous, flowing lines >Natural forms >Hard, light colored materials >Modern materials and techniques with exposed structure for decoration
Victor Horta (Architect) >Maison du Deuple (Brussels, 1896) >Hotel Tassel (Brussels, 1894)
Hotel Tassel (Building) >True Art Nouveau >Incorporated whiplash lines >Almost inconceivably new for the time
Le Parisien (Building) >Paris, Georges Chedanne, 1903 >Rational >Exposed structure >Utilitarian
Hector Guimard (Architect) >Hotel Guimard (Paris, 1909) >Metro (Paris, 1900)
Hotel Guimard (Building) >Paris, Hector Guimard, 1909 >Profuse decoration and aestheticism >Beauty as its own justification
Antonio Gaudi (Architect) >Sagrada Familia (Barcelona, 1882) >Park Guell (Barcelona, 1900) >Casa Batllo (Barcelona, 1905)
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