Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) Furniture and interiors

At the end of the XIX century a crucial breakthrough in the development of the style of interior decoration and furniture took place. This change can be explained by the fact that other styles have ceased to meet the demands of functionalism and haven’t offed anything new and fresh solutions have been replaced by modern style. Modern is a huge revolution in aesthetics, style, familiar things changed beyond recognition, it was a new artistic language, complex and eclectic, quirky and beautiful.

Modern style was proclaimed universal to arrange the living space of the modern man to the last detail. Whimsicality form should not conflict with the comfort and practicality of things. The house both inside and out was designed as a single art object, suitable for a normal life. The flowing lines of vegetable ornamentation on columns rising to the ceiling, around doorways, streaming on the painted, covered with stucco or upholstered walls, spill over to the wooden panel and slide the picture parquet.

Furniture is literally comes out of the walls. Cantilever shelves grow out of the scrollwork wall molding or carving. And some things are perceived as accents in a single composition of the room. Niches and shelves are very popular. They are not only on the walls, but also in fireplaces, closets, cupboards, sofas. Everywhere you can put pictures, or books or decorative trifles, whose production is booming.

Curtains, upholstery, wallpaper are almost always a whimsical floral ornaments, large flowers and Japanese motifs. Japan is just coming into fashion. Refined, pale yellow, silver, purple and gray-green colors.

Art Nouveau furniture design brought new expressive and decorative objects, making them more emphasis than constructive. The interior focuses on floral motifs, smooth flowing forms. Furniture in Art Nouveau style is characterized by curves of scrollwork and floral forms and female figures with long, loose waves of hair - as if being in a leisurely movement, elegant curves and ornate decorative hobby.

Modern was able to use the most exotic and simple decorative materials. In the way of furniture used hand-carved, inlaid, crystal panels. In the cheap - glass, stamped embossed on the plywood factory and paste jewelry made of copper and brass. "Quoted from the book by Henry Gatsura" Furniture and interiors of modern (1880-1917) ".

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Image perception is analytically by the gradual accumulation of information presented. By composition, we mean placing information (picture elements) in the frame so as to be perceived unified in a certain sequence, which would help to achieve a harmonious framing.

The role of composition is to draw attention to the image - create a mood, a feeling, to enrich the image with meaning.