The Influence
The Movement
Key Figures
Key Works
Person, Place, or Thing?
FINAL
100
Art from this continent provided European and North American artists and designers with approaches to space, color, drawing conventions, and subject matter that were radically unlike Western traditions.
What is Asia?
100
Art nouveau was an international decorative style that thrived during roughly these two decades.
What are the 1890s and 1900s?
100
The sources often cited for art nouveau are diffuse and wide-ranging and include this painters swirling forms.
Who is Van Gogh?
100
The artist that made this poster was one of two figures working in Paris that played an important role in the transition from Victorian graphics to the art nouveau style.
Who is Jules Chéret?
100
This companies logo and several trademarks of art nouveau origin have been in continuous use since the 1890s
What is General Electric?
200
This term means "pictures of the floating world".
What is Ukiyo-e?
200
This is Art nouveau’s identifying visual quality.
What are organic, plantlike lines?
200
The term art nouveau arose in a gallery in this city, run by art dealer Samuel Bing, which opened in 1895.
What is Paris?
200
The Chap Book's poster and cover was created by this American designer in 1895.
Who is Will Bradley?
200
South Wind, Clear Dawn is a woodcut that features this mountain being struck by early morning light.
What is Mount Fuji?
300
These Japanese prints were a careful collaboration between publisher, artist, block cutter, and printer.
What are Woodblock Prints?
300
The art nouveau movement was a vital period in architecture and the applied arts, because it formed a bridge between Victorian clutter and this movement.
What is modernism?
300
This catalogue cover, which express the kinetic energy of electricity with brush-drawn lettering and ornaments was created by this German designer.
Who is Otto Eckmann?
300
The chapter title page and text page from Histoiredes quatre fils Aymon, 1883 was designed by this Swiss-French artist.
Who is Eugène Grasset?
300
This Italian liqueur advertisement was designed by Adolfo Hohenstein in 1901.
What is Campari?
400
This is the term for the late nineteenth-century Western mania for all things Japanese.
What is Japonisme?
400
When art nouveau arrived in Germany it was called this after a new magazine founded by writer, journalist, and publisher Georg Hirth in Munich in 1896.
What is Jugendstil (youth style)?
400
This Czech designer resisted the label Art Nouveau, maintaining that art was eternal and could never be new.
Who is Alphonse Mucha?
400
“Tournée du Chat Noir de Rodolphe Salis,” 1896 was designed by this french artist.
Who is Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen?
400
This poster for Job in 1898 was advertising this product.
What are cigarette papers?
500
This renowned Japanese artist produced an estimated thirty-five thousand works during seven decades of ceaseless artistic creation.
Who is Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)?
500
This book, which first appeared in 1936, was one of the first books to give art nouveau a significant position in the development of twentieth-century art and architecture.
What is Pioneers of Modern Design?
500
This english artist become famous at age twenty, when his illustrations and binding for a new edition of Malory’s Morte d’Arthur began to appear in monthly installments.
Who is Aubrey Beardsley?
500
This Cinzano poster, 1910 was designed by this french artist.
Who is Leonetto Cappiello?
500
“The Eyes of Herod” illustration was made for this Irish authors book Salomé, in 1894.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
500
In 1889, and again in 1891 and 1892, this American magazine commissioned covers from Eugène Grasset.
What is Harper's Magazine?