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“The Most Beautiful Art Nouveau Church in the World”

December 10, 2019 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

Having earlier touched briefly on the Vienna Secession movement (What is the Vienna Secession? October 29, 2019) and on its connection with Art Nouveau in Vienna (toward the end of More Art Nouveau Notes: Time and Place, May 31, 2019), I continue to be intrigued by the links between the two. Timewise, the two movements overlapped, with …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: art nouveau, Jugendstil - Vienna, Vienna - Art Nouveau, Vienna - Secession, Vienna - Steinhof (St. Leopold Church), Wagner (Otto)

Poster House (America’s Only Poster Museum) Opens with Alphonse Mucha

July 21, 2019 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

In the spring of 2017, visiting Amsterdam with my cousin, we were able to wander across the street (well, with the help of our hotel’s concierge) to the Van Gogh Museum to spend a morning with Prints in Paris 1900. It was an engrossing exhibition (the tagline read “The fin de siècle comes to life”). The …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History Tagged With: art nouveau, Bernhardt (Sarah), Hsu (Hua), Loos (Ted), Mucha (Alphonse), Poster House, Richard Fuxa Foundation

More Art Nouveau Notes: Time and Place

May 31, 2019 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

Art Nouveau provides much pleasure to those who (like myself) have been captured by the allure of the style, and I think I might have come up with a reason why Art Nouveau is so appealing. It’s not only that the style provides the opportunity to experience exceptional beauty, however that elusive quality is defined …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History Tagged With: art nouveau, Jullian (Philippe), l'art nouveau, Paris - Exposition 1900, Sembach (Klaus-Jürgen), Vienna - Secession

Midsummer’s Day Thoughts

June 21, 2018 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

It’s Midsummer’s Day today, and as I prepare to send this post out (hopefully before Midsummer’s Day turns into a dreamy midsummer’s night), I have to confess that I was shocked to see that my last post was on Easter, some three months ago. My apologies. I’m consistently thinking about how lucky I am. Not …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: art nouveau, Atlantic Charter, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Kurtz-Phelan (Daniel), Marshall (George C.), Marshall Plan, Marshall Plan (China), Midsummer's Day, Obama (Barack), Rhodes (Ben), Truman (Harry S.), Venice, Venice (Lido)

A Deeper Dive into Art Nouveau

March 19, 2017 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

Good friends like to tease me about my attention to my special interests. When asked, I’m always quick to note that I have three (in no particular order): my love of elephants, my devotion to opera, and my joy in discovering the subtle—and sometimes not-so-subtle—pleasures of Art Nouveau. The first comes up pretty often, as …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture Tagged With: art nouveau, Bing (Siegfried), Gaillard (Eugène), Gaudi (Antoni), Guimard (Hector), Macdonald (Margaret), Mackintosh (Charles Rennie), Maison de l'Art Nouveau

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