NOUN
- a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers
How To Use art nouveau In A Sentence
- Nevertheless, the voluptuous figures that adorn his ormolu mounts and the fluidity of his designs gave Linke's pieces their characteristic blend of ancien regime and Art Nouveau, that made them stand out.
- While poster art continued to prosper, the ornate details of Art Nouveau vanished.
- Like impressionism, art nouveau was an International revolt against the traditional academic art style.
- Abbreviated from a 1925 Paris exhibition, art deco was a mix of cubism, art nouveau and Russian ballet, with a fondness for strident colours and geometric lines.
- His posters are drenched with colour, most typically of girls done up in an Art Nouveau-style, featuring organic, flowing plant forms.
- Below a big art nouveau mirror there's a gas fire with a magnetic piper stuck to it, an indication of his Scottish roots.
- Glass may have been the material that best expressed the restless spirit of art nouveau.
- The band was originally founded in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire (UK), in 1979, as a four-piece avant-garde instrumental group, called Art Nouveau, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Side-Line news feed
- By association, then, sculptural adornment so popular under art nouveau was rendered obsolete.
- He developed an idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable style that combined figurative expressionism with influences from Klimt, Schiele and Austrian Art Nouveau.
