Mucha

By Patrick Bade
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Length1h 26m

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Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known to insiders as the "Mucha style" for the legions of imitators who adapted the master's celebrated tableaux. Today, his distinctive depictions of lithe young women in classical dress have become a pop cultural touchstone, inspiring album covers, comic books, and everything in between. Patrick Bade and Victoria Charles offer readers an inspiring survey of Mucha's career, illustrated with over one hundred lustrous images, from early Parisian advertisements and posters for Sandra Bernhardt, to the famous historical murals painted just before his death, at the age of 78, in 1939.

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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (231)
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GenreOther
Length1 hr 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 1, 2011
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1MuchaMucha
2p. cm. Includes index.
3Biography
4his generation.
5Chavannes, Redon, Moreau and Huysmans.
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6Gismonda
7“Parisian” artist.
8Ivancice in Moravia, then a province of the vast
91896 Colour lithograph, 69 x 50.8 cm Posters Please Inc., New York.
10In the first decade of Mucha’s life Czech
111896 Colour lithograph, 51.4 x 32 cm. Mucha Trust.
12Czech National Theatre in 1881 and for which
131896 Colour lithograph, 203.7 x 76 cm. Mucha Trust.
14Self Portrait
15church of St. Peter in the local capital of Brno
16Poster for “Job” cigarette paper
17grammar school. During his four years as a
18The
19After two more years of drudgery as a
20Autumn (from the Seasons series)
21Haussmann’s Paris, the most impressive scheme
22fancy-dress ball. The Art Nouveau style, of
23Zodiac
24five hundred members of the audience. The
25Flower
26Fruit
27no news from Thiery for two and even three
281897-1899 Colour lithograph, 13.6 x 36 cm. Mucha Trust.
29the whole neighbourhood – all the uncles and
30Monaco • Monte-Carlo
31in the newly-built castle of Emmahof with
32Even the posters of the 1890s, on which
33The manifesto of the Symbolist “Salon de la
341897 Colour lithograph, 34.5 x 28 cm. Mucha Trust.
35Albert Aurier, the very first critic who
361897 Colour lithograph, 56 x 34.8 cm. Mucha Trust.
37few years.
381897 Colour lithograph, 25 x 18 cm. Mucha Trust.
39and German-speaking Europe. The public
40Cover for Chansons d’aïeules
41attracted to Munich were Lovis Corinth, Wassily
421897 Porcelain, diameter: 31 cm. Mucha Trust.
43by such conservative figures as the portraitist
441897 Colour lithograph, 72.7 x 55.2 cm. Mucha Trust.
45Rose (from The Four Flowers series)
46Lily (from The Four Flowers series)
47Gauguin in Brittany and Van Gogh in Arles
48most radically abstracted painting of the
491898 Pencil and watercolour, 56 x 34.8 cm. Mucha Trust.
50respect of Puvis de Chavannes (although secretly
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