Modesty is at the heart of Rassenfosse’s work, which explored all its facets, nuances and limits, with extraordinary consistency and continuity. This attitude makes him an artist out of time, entirely given over to a carnal passion, very controlled, subtle, showing himself to be full of restraint, as if to make it last, without wanting to exhaust it by the slightest excess.
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Izvirnost katalonskega modernizma (Modernisme) izhaja iz navideznega nasprotja med tradicionalnostjo in modernostjo. Pravzaprav je katalonska družba, hoteč postati svetovljanska in moderna, z njim izpeljala prevrednotenje zgodovine in tradicije. V desetletju od 1880 do 1890 so arhitekti in oblikovalci oživili preteklost in ustvarili sloge, ki so bili hkrati srednjeveški, starinski in svetovljanski. Po l. 1900 se… Read more »
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The Horta Museum – Saint-Gilles unveils a new exhibition devoted to ornament. Entitled “The Art Nouveau ornament”, it presents a selection whose objective is to show a representative selection of the creations of major artists of European Art Nouveau such as William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hector Guimard, Morris Denis and Josef Hoffmann.
To commemorate Thonet’s 200th anniversary, the MAK is presenting a major exhibition on modern furniture, in which the signature bentwood furniture of the world famous company is placed in the context of contemporary technological, typological, aesthetic, and historical developments. Thonet’s bentwood chairs are compared with chairs made of tubular steel and plastic as well as with classic office chairs and avant-garde furniture experiments.
The Members of the Jugendstilverein Bad Nauheim celebrated the 20 years of the RANN by organising a special event dedicated to the Network during the 2019 Jugendstilfestival!
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On 10 June, we celebrated the World Art Nouveau Day!
Discover the winners of our photo contest dedicated to My Art Nouveau Archives!
Promoted by the Horta Museum Editions, the collector Jonathan Mangelinckx and the art historian Borys Delobbe (UCLouvain), the series “Belgian Art Nouveau: Vision, Design & Craft” intends to renew our understanding of the different looks that have crossed in Belgium in the struggle for a new aesthetic in applied arts at the turn of the 19th century.
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