Sunday, April 1, 2007

Art Nouveau design and Psychedelic design

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau (c.1880 to 1910) appeared in the first 20th century modern style form. The trend of Art Nouveau design style is curvy lines, sinuous, flowers, leaves, marquetry...

Art Nouveau in Painting

Art Nouveau in Architecture

Art Nouveau in Poster

Psychedelic Art

Psychedelic art (1960's) influenced by the craze for hallucinatory drugs, especially LSD. Typical designs feature abstract swirls of high-key colour. Psychedelic visual arts were in concert posters, album covers, lightshows, murals, comic books, underground newspapers

In general, Psychedelic revived some aspects of Art Nouveau.

Sources:
http://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/exhibit_city.shtm#
http://www.itic.org.ge/heritage/artnouveau/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_nouveau
http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/period_artnouveau.shtm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_art
http://www.vinylmagic3.it/images/COLOUR%20HAZE.jpg

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