Mucha- selected from the Rowe Collection (Japan house)

Folio Cover, 1902

Publication: Documents decoratifs

Alphonse Mucha had seventy two individual prints folio entitle Documents decoratifs. He depicted this poster as neutral tone yet golden. The light from the lamp reflects on the female figure's face and upper body. This poster has equal balance of a image and text. As other his art works this female has curly hair and shows her curvy body. The color he chose for the body makes the body read, it has almost photo image feels to it. This image doesn't look exactely like I saw from Japan house, however the one I saw from Japan house had green patterns on the left side and the fonts were green as well. 

Mostly of the female figures in his art are beautiful, elegant and graceful. Most of his works have organic, floaty, and whimsical feels to it. Personally they create positive, pleasant and dreamy feels for me. 

Alphonse Mucha

Job, 1898

monaco-monte-carlo, 1897

Poster of Maude Adams as Joan of Arc, 1909

Alphonse Mucha was an important figure in Art Nouveau. He was interested in many different types of art. He is famous for illustrator of his idealize female figures. Much had a distinctive style, he normally used young female figures with Mucha's so called 'macaronie hair" on posters, postcards and art  prints. most of his line drawings are curvilinear which creates romantic and sensual feelings. Female figures are erotic at times but still graceful at same time. Bright colors and gold tones were often used. Mucha's works are centralize female figures and mostly they are surrounded by nature, flowers and wearing fancy dresses. Most of his prints have frame types of around the art work to show decorative art. Mucha had done numerous prints, posters and murals. 

Beggarstaff Bros

A trip to China town 1890

He used font that is asian style. There are no lines suggesting folds of  his clothing and  any details.  Using red as the background really stands out.

Using complementary color (red and green) draws a lot of attention. 

As far as composition goes square inside square is interesting.

"Kassama" Corn Flour 1900

The artist used simple design and simple color but still have a point across. 

He worked with contour lines, and there are no values or shadows. Although the color is flat it has great feel to it because usage of colors and shapes.

Girl on a sofa, 1895

Here again he used only few colors, but great usage of negative space. 

It is well balance, and red stripes creates rhythm.

Jules Cheret

Casino de Paris, 1891

The artist used primary color for this poster. To bring out the focal point he used bright yellow for the dress and other creatures fade in with the background. It's obvious that the artist's aim wasn't for realistic, therefore there aren't great details of textures and values. To make the posters balance he filled right side with words.

La Loie Fuller, 1893

The artist mostly used warm colors to create energy,passion. 

Dark background definitely bring out the warm colors more. A lot of his paintings/posters are in action of doing something fun. They have great sense of movement and expresses great energy.

Music 1898

The artist used diagonal line to express feeling of movement.  The drawing is fun and energetic. Using white choral to create high light makes the drawing pop out of the paper  

Gustav Kimt

Most of Gustav's art was on woman. fill with mythical, magical and free spirit paintings.

Often in his painting Woman's body were erotic.He expressed human figures very freely and he used many organic forms. he also used repeated shapes such as rectangle often. 

He painting are bright, fun but also elegant as well. 

The Three Ages of Woman, 1905

The Kiss (1907~1908)

The Friends (1916~1917)

William Morris

Membland 1876

This tile  patterns are fun, organic and my eyes move around all over the places. 

I love how william Morris used dark background because that definitely brings out the blue leaves.

Using contrast of light and dark of this tile seemed to work so well.

Kennet 1883-4

He produced a set of seven designs that were each named after a different tributary of the Thames and this one is called Kennet. This attracted my eyes the most out of the other sets of Textiles. It has great delicate details of flowers and leaves. I feel like his arts display his patient and dedication.

La Belle Iseult  1858

This painting of the model is Jane Burden who became Morris's wife in 1859. 

Wrinkles of her dress, curtains, and blankets are nicely done.

Natural light source from left side of the room creates the painting more interesting.