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Alphonse Mucha

By Patrick Bade

Book information

Publisher
Parkstone Press
ISBN
1781602441, 9781781602447, 978-1-78310-076-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
72 MB (75312430 bytes)
Series
Best of
Pages
200\200
Time added
2015-04-29 03:32:05

Description

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 paintings have inspired 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 of 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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