Friday 29 March 2024

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Friday 29 March 2024

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    Art Nouveau: Liberty style

    Griffi (cover) for Fratelli Treves, Turin and the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art, 1902
    At the end of the 19th century, a new decorative style of international character began to spread, which will continue to be in fashion for the whole of the following decade.

    This style was inspired by the artistic ideals preached by William Morris, to the oriental influence of Modern Movement, to the mysticism of the Pre-Raphaelites and gods symbolist painters and presented two main currents.

    The first developed in France and Belgium, drew its inspiration from nature, and exasperated the suppleness of the vegetables, whose stems and branches became tangled in a way that made them unrecognizable.
    The second, aimed at abalanced geometric elegance it found expression in the work of the Viennese secessionist movement.

    Art Nouveau paved the way for modern design andmodern architecture.  
    The greatest masters exhibited their best Art Nouveau style glass production at national and international industrial exhibitions, among which we remember that of Paris of the 1900 and those of St. Louis need Turin of 1902.


    The Nouveau style probably reached its peak during theInternational exhibition of modern decorative art of Turin in 1902, in which the projects of designers from major European countries were exhibited, including objects and prints from the famous London warehouses of Arthur Lasenby Liberty.  

    In this period the cameo glass double and triple layer, when Emile Galle he reached extraordinary levels of freedom and perfection, so much so that he emerged as the best artist of the time and perhaps the greatest of all time.  

    At the same time in Austria and America the iridescent glassin Germany, however, glass was known for the quality and fantasy of its enamel decorations.  


    In these years there were two important innovations: in America LC Tiffany with the techniques of colored glass he created his own famous lamps (in which the glasses were supported by lead frames), while in France i Daum brothers, Decorchemont and Argy-Rousseau improved the technique of pate-de-verre (ground glass worked as a paste and fired as enamel), and created jewels-like vases and sculptures.


    With the decorative style of Art Nouveau, known as Liberty, the tradition of heavy Victorian design was interrupted, a
    movement full of vitality and originality which announced the style will then characterize the twentieth century.  

    Source: Vitrum.it and Wikipedia.org

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