Art Nouveau
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)
Alphonse Mucha was a Czech artist, whose works brought him into the lights of the Art Nouveau movement. His stylized hair patterns became a hallmark and the way in which he turned even immaterial things into decorations, without creating laden images (in his posters), brought him fame. But he didn’t like that, and he […]
Alphonse Mucha - Job cigarettes
Created in 1898, as a commercial for “Job” cigarettes, this poster is a famous Art Nouveau work. Everything is transformed into decorative form using swirling lines and flat colors. The hair, the cigarettes smoke, all becomes part of the scenery of pleasure. In fact Mucha subordinates the advertised object to the image of pleasure, painted […]
