“Ask, and it is given” means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness.
— Abraham
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ART NOUVEAU
Art Nouveau (New Art) was an architectural and design movement that developed out of the ideas promoted by the Arts and Crafts Movement. The international style of Art Nouveau took its name from a shop in Paris called L’Art Nouveau and was known by that name in France, Belgium, Holland, England, and the United States. In other places, it had other names - Jugendstil in Austria and Germany (after the magazine Der Jugend, “youth”), Modernismo in Spain, and Floreale or Liberty in Italy. Proponents of this movement tried to synthesize all the arts in a determined attempt to create art based on natural forms that could be mass-produced for a large audience. The Art Nouveau style emerged at the end of the 19th century and adapted the twining plant form to the needs of architecture, painting, sculpture, and all of the decorative arts.The mature Art Nouveau style was first seen in houses designed in Brussels in the 1890s by Victor Horta (1861-1947).
Several influences can be identified in Art Nouveau. In addition to the rich, foliated two-dimensional ornament of Arts and Crafts design and the artisan’s respect for materials of the Arts and Crafts movement, the free, sinuous whiplash curve of Japanese print designs inspired Art Nouveau artists. Art Nouveau also borrowed from the expressively patterned styles of van Gogh, Gauguin, and their Post-Impressionist and Symbolist contemporaries.
Text from Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Twelfth Edition by Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya.
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