'Sex and Sensibility: the Allure of Art Nouveau'

[MrGongGong]

Klimt's Frieze?

(By the way, JFLL: you're probably right about the Sixth-Form comment!)

I think that is Secessionist (which we never really had in the UK)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think that is Secessionist (which we never really had in the UK)

Ah! I thought "Secessionist" was "Austrian" for "New Art"!

(Y'know; just like "Neue Sachlichkeit" meant "Art Deco". Not sure what the French for "Art Deco" is.)

[salymap]

I thought part 2 last night was really interesting. Filmed in London with Mr.Smith visiting lots of places and showing gorgeous Liberty designs, amongst other goodies.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought part 2 last night was really interesting. Filmed in London with Mr.Smith visiting lots of places and showing gorgeous Liberty designs, amongst other goodies.

I agree; an excellent programme. I was particularly impressed by Mary Macdonald's Silver Apples of the Moon and the links between the Glasgow School and Vienna.


(AND the silks archivist at Liberty's managed to get Mr Smith to pronounce "Art Nouveau" correctly for the only time so far in the series! )

[Flosshilde]

did Likewise poor Rennie Mackintosh's flower designs have been reproduced so many times in gift shop tat.

'Travestied' is the word I think you are looking for, not 'reproduced'. However often his wonderful watercolours of flowers & plants are reproduced they are never nauseam

An example of 'Mockintosh' jewellery -
https://www.baxtersjewellers.com/aca...brooch_425.jpg

A real Mackintosh flower painting -
http://www.universityofglasgowshops....ctus%20web.jpg

& fabric design -
http://www.achome.co.uk/pictorial/ma...sh/cmack52.jpg
http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/c...803_jpg_ds.jpg

[Flosshilde]

Ah! I thought "Secessionist" was "Austrian" for "New Art"!

(Y'know; just like "Neue Sachlichkeit" meant "Art Deco". Not sure what the French for "Art Deco" is.)

The German (& presumably Austrian) for Art Nouveau is Jugendstil; in Italy it's Stile Liberty, or Arte Nova.

[vinteuil]

I think that is Secessionist (which we never really had in the UK)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Secession

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_(art)

[salymap]

I'm slightly ashamed of my big round biscuit barrel showing Seurat's 'Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of the Grande Jatte', although it is beautifully represented with very subtle colouring. But still....

oh dear, this should have had a link to #20 from Chris Newman but something has gone wrong.

[Serial_Apologist]

The German (& presumably Austrian) for Art Nouveau is Jugendstil; in Italy it's Stile Liberty, or Arte Nova.

And from memory the French term is "Stile nouveau" - so there is no "correct" pronunciation for Art Nouveau as the term is itself English, strictly speaking. Of course, my source could well be wrong.

[vinteuil]

as the French wiki says - "Le terme français « Art nouveau » s’est imposé en Grande-Bretagne, en même temps que l’anglomanie en France a répandu la forme « Modern Style» au début du XXe siècle."

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_nouveau