art movements

Art Nouveau (1880's-1914)
Art Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines. Somewhat rooted in the British Arts and Crafts Movement of William Morris, Art Nouveau became popular across Europe and in the United States.
Leading practitioners included Aubrey Beardsley, Gustav Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, and the American glassmaker Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Art Nouveau remained popular until about the time of World War I, and was ultimately replaced by the Art Deco style.

Impressionism - French and American (1860's-early 1900's)
A movement in painting that originated in France in the 1860's. Impressionist painters celebrated the overwhelming vision of nature seen in the splendor of natural light -- whether dawn, daylight or twilight. They were fascinate...