Art Nouveau Glassware

Art Nouveau is an international style of architecture and decoration in the early 1880s and 1890s, it is derived from the nickname House of Art Nouveau, a gallery of interior design that opened in Paris in 1896. The term describes the fluid organic forms of decorative arts that flourished in France and was strongly present in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands as well as making its way across the Atlantic toward America. The movement is to turn away from the rigid and oppressive aesthetic historicism as defined in the Victorian era and adopt a new approach. Its roots are found in many different sources such as Japonisme, Rococo, Celtic Revival and had links with the contemporary symbolist movement. Interestingly, the forms of movement have been released in magazines and stores. Art Nouveau was an enormous range, strong supporters of the movement it sees as a complete way of life, a method to break all links with the classical past. Art Nouveau has reached a high point at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, outlining the new style of all the ways - painting, architecture, furniture, glassware, graphic design, jewelry, pottery, metalwork, textiles and sculpture. However, at the beginning of the First World War, the highly stylized nature of Art Nouveau design was abandoned mainly because of how it was expensive to produce, but the cheapest, easiest modernism began to be favored. However, Art Nouveau influenced a variety of art and design movements that continued to explore integrated design, including De Stijl, a Dutch design movement in the 1920s, and the German school of Bauhaus in the 1920s and 1930s.