I went to Boston three weeks ago. My main purpose was to visit to the Museum of Fine Arts. They have a special exhibit now. “Art Nouveau jewelry.“
Art Nouveau is a style of art. This started at the end of nineteenth century. Art Nouveau artists use nature creatures as their art motif. For example, flowers, leaves, vines and insects. They made various art works with these things that are decorative and symmetrical, artificial. They designed advertised posters, furniture, building, glassware, and jewelry.
The interesting thing is that they were influenced Japanese nineteenth century’s craft works. Some Japanese crafts were brought to Europe in nineteenth century and became a boom. This boom was called “Japonisme”. After that, some artists got inspiration from these things when they started Art Nouveau.
I am interested in not only the beauty of these designs but also this background.
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