Art Nouveau was a total art style that emerged in the late 19th century, incorporating architecture, design and fine arts. It took inspiration from natural, organic forms like vines and flowers. Two key figures were Antonio Gaudi, a Spanish architect known for unique structures like Casa Mila and Parque Güell that featured curving shapes, and Charles Rennie MacKintosh, a Scottish designer who pioneered the Art Nouveau interior style using flowing lines and nature-inspired motifs. Art Nouveau emphasized harmony and rejected historical influences in favor of a modern aesthetic focused on the natural world.

1. art nouveau & de stIjl
By
PAWAN KUMAR SINGH

2. ART NOUVEAU
• Art Nouveau is considered a
"total" art style, embracing
architecture, graphic art, interior
design, and most of the
decorative arts including
jewellery, furniture, textiles,
household silver and other
utensils and lighting, as well as
the fine arts. According to the
philosophy of the style, art
should be a way of life.

3. • Arthur Mackmurdo's book-
cover for Wren's City Churches
(1883), with its rhythmic floral
patterns, is often considered the
first realisation of Art Nouveau.

4. WALL HANGING CYCLAMEN
• A description published in Pan
magazine of Hermann Obrist's
wall hanging Cyclamen (1894)
described it as "sudden violent
curves generated by the crack of
a whip", which became well
known during the early spread
of Art Nouveau.

5. • At its beginning, neither Art Nouveau nor Jugendstil was the common
name of the style but was known as this in some locations, and the
style had different names as it was spread.
• Those two names came from, respectively, Siegfried Bing's gallery
Maison de l'Art Nouveau in Paris and the magazine Jugend in Munich,

6. IN ARCHITECTURE
• In architecture, hyperbolas and
parabolas in windows, arches,
and doors are common, and
decorative mouldings 'grow' into
plant-derived forms. Like most
design styles, Art Nouveau
sought to harmonise its forms.
The text above the Paris Metro
entrance uses the qualities of
the rest of the iron work in the
structure.

7. ANTONIO GAUDI
• exceptional creative
contribution to the development
of architecture and building
technology in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries.
• His monuments represent an
eclectic, as well as a very
personal, style which was given
free reign in the design of
gardens, sculpture and all
decorative arts, as well as
architecture.

8. wonders of Gaudi
• Casa Mila
• The building is 1,323 m2 per
floor on a plot of 1,620 m2.
Gaudí began the first sketches in
his workshop in the Sagrada
Familia, where he conceived of
this house as a constant curve,
both outside and inside,
incorporating multiple solutions
of formal geometry and
elements of a naturalistic nature.

9. • Casa Milà is the result of two
buildings, which are structured
around two courtyards that
provide light to the nine levels:
basement, ground floor,
mezzanine, main (or noble) floor,
four upper floors, and an attic.

10. Parque Güell

11. Interior design
• It has been said often that Art
Nouveau interior design is in fact
the original modern style of the
20th century, as it was the first
style to stop looking back in time
for inspiration

12. • Art Nouveau was influenced by ideas of the natural world and what designers
experienced around them, borrowing ideas from nature and reflecting them in
magnificent fabrics and wall paper.
• From 1880 to 1910, art nouveau interior design was the height of originality and design
excellence. The concept was first on show in Paris, France and then London, UK. It caused
a huge fuss as people instantly loved it or loathed it.
• The two distinct looks that were commonly used by nouveau artist are rational, linear
lines and curves that take on organic shapes.
• Take a look at the wonderful work created by the architect/designer Charles Rennie
MacKintosh and his wife and fellow artist, Margaret MacDonald. I am very proud to be
from the same city, Glasgow in bonnie Scotland.

17. Thank you