Looking further into Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was a movement that came about in the late 19th century and early 20th century and was influenced mainly from Japanese/oriental style art as well as a couple of other influences.

Originally, the movement came about in France by a Japanese man (this is likely where the Japanese influences came from) who set up a new Art Gallery that offered a different style of Art that, as mentioned before consisted of various types of floral designs or rather art that was based up on nature and was like a reaction against the Industrial Revolution and machinery.

As well as using floral patterns as part of it's base style Art Nouveau also consisted of loosely dressed women and used very organic and earthy colours too illustrate things.

Here is an example of Art Nouveau, which incorporates pretty much all things Art Nouveau style. As you can see there is a fairly loosely dressed lady with wavey hair and on a very nature like background that has organic colours and plants (there are even flowers in her hair).

There were many famous Art Nouveau artists but one that particularly stands out for me is 'Charles Rennie mackintosh'. He was a Scottish painter and designer who was born June 7, 1868 and died December 10, 1928.

Mackintosh actually did various pieces of furniture design during his earlier life as an Art Nouveau artist. but because he lived in Glasgow, which during the Industrial Revolution prospered quite greatly, elements of Asian art and modernism began to influence his work, which is quite odd for someone who was Britain's main representative of Art Nouveau.

But after a certain period of time Mackintosh decided to devote the rest of his life to simply painting, which he was also well known for (he was also a watercolourist).