artist and furniture and textile designer of the Art Nouveau period, who, later in life, found relief from his bouts with depression by painting flowers. His stylized but still somehow accurate ...

Over on Instagram, a freelance artist who goes by the name of suumum has been reimagining Dune characters as art nouveau drawings in a series of character portraits—and each one is so damn cool.

Art Nouveau sought inspiration, not in human endeavour, but the beauty of the natural world. It was inspired by forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and microscopic creatures, finding its ...

But the book was never published, and after Hokusai died in 1849, the drawings came into the possession of Art Nouveau jeweler Henri Vever. Five years after Vever’s death in 1943, a collector ...

Gustav Klimt’s “Woman Facing Left” is a loose, gestural drawing of a profile that hints at the vine-like lines of Art Nouveau. “Théâtre de Loie Fuller, Exposition Universelle,” ca.

He adds: “I do not consider that my posters were done in an Art Nouveau style per se, but for me the movement was an essential element that I did attempt a nod towards.” “You can draw a straight line ...

On Christmas Eve in 1894, Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha was checking lithographic prints at the Parisian studio Lemercier when he received an unexpected call from the nearby ...