Art Nouveau (c.1880 to 1910):
Art nouveau was show first in Paris and then in London. It was the first 20th century modern style. It was a “new art” that stop looking backward to the historical ideas. Art nouveau’s style was taken inspiration from natural world and was carried out with multiform, multicolor and multi-line. Moreover, it was applied in architecture, decorative art and so on. There were two distinct looks about the style of Art nouveau: curvy lines and the more austere.
Style:
-Sinuous, elongated, curvy lines
-The whiplash line
-Vertical lines and height
-Stylized flowers, leaves, roots, buds and seedpods
-The female form - in a pre-Raphaelite pose with long, flowing hair
-Exotic woods, marquetry, iridescent glass, silver and semi-precious stones
Art nouveau was show first in Paris and then in London. It was the first 20th century modern style. It was a “new art” that stop looking backward to the historical ideas. Art nouveau’s style was taken inspiration from natural world and was carried out with multiform, multicolor and multi-line. Moreover, it was applied in architecture, decorative art and so on. There were two distinct looks about the style of Art nouveau: curvy lines and the more austere.
Style:
-Sinuous, elongated, curvy lines
-The whiplash line
-Vertical lines and height
-Stylized flowers, leaves, roots, buds and seedpods
-The female form - in a pre-Raphaelite pose with long, flowing hair
-Exotic woods, marquetry, iridescent glass, silver and semi-precious stones
“A favorite Art Nouveau theme was a nymph with flowers in her abundant streaming hair”Color schemes:
Art Nouveau was applied in architecture, decorative art with muted tones (whites, greens and lilac blues, purples and blacks) for rooms and stronger colours for fabrics and wallpapers.
Font:
Art Nouveau fonts are both artistic and functional. It is a collection of impressive fonts (over 30 unique fonts, including text, title faces and even decorative initials)
Psychedelic art (1960’s):
Drugs usually make people feel psychedelic. Psychedelic art is art that inspired from that. Psychedelic Art applied in all the art movement of the 1960s counterculture that reacted against the conservatism. Therefore, “Concert posters, album covers, lightshows, murals, comic books, underground newspapers and more reflected not only the kaleidoscopically swirling patterns of LSD hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments”
Style:
Kaleidoscopic, fractal or paisley patterns.
Extreme depth of detail or stylization of detail.
Morphing of objects and/or themes and sometimes collage.
Inclusion of phosphenes and other entoptic motifs.
Repetition of motifs.
Drugs usually make people feel psychedelic. Psychedelic art is art that inspired from that. Psychedelic Art applied in all the art movement of the 1960s counterculture that reacted against the conservatism. Therefore, “Concert posters, album covers, lightshows, murals, comic books, underground newspapers and more reflected not only the kaleidoscopically swirling patterns of LSD hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments”
Style:
Kaleidoscopic, fractal or paisley patterns.
Extreme depth of detail or stylization of detail.
Morphing of objects and/or themes and sometimes collage.
Inclusion of phosphenes and other entoptic motifs.
Repetition of motifs.
Color schemes:
Bright and/or highly contrasting colors.
Font:
“The lettering was often manipulated and distorted from its base forms. Fonts by their nature work most practically when they have a simple, horizontal base and characters have regular size and positioning.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/period_artnouveau.shtml
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/nouveau.shtml
http://www.bricksandbrass.co.uk/deselem/colour/colouran.htm
http://www.fontcraft.com/scriptorium/anmain.html
http://www.tile-heaven.co.uk/art-noo-01.htm
http://www.siena.edu/boswell/Drug%20Projects/Susan/1960s.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_art
http://www.fontcraft.com/scriptorium/psychedelic.html
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