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Article: Revisiting the Style of ART NOUVEAU.
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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"Art Nouveau's modernity was achieved through the combination of disparate sources ... making it one of the most complex intellectual and aesthetic forces in the history of decorative art."
THE ART NOUVEAU (French for "new art") movement grew as a reaction to the excesses of other more-academic 19th-century revivals. Its proponents reinterpreted their sources of inspiration--the art of Japan, nature, and geometry--in their efforts to reform the arts and create a new visual vocabulary suited to modern life. These designers sought to create a total and complete decorative style that combined all the arts--including sculpture, painting, graphics, decorative arts, ...