
Explore the international Art Nouveau movement, its curved lines and regional variation across cities like Brussels, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, and Paris, tracing origins to Gustaf Klimt's kiss.
Explore art nouveau as a global 1890–1910 movement defined by long sinuous lines across architecture, interior design, decorative arts, and design influenced by Japanese prints.
Explore rococo architecture, art, and design, a lighter continuation of baroque emerging in France, with pastel colors, gilding, mirrors, and decorative, organic motifs.
Explore the arts and crafts movement as a reaction to the industrial revolution, emphasizing craftsmanship, natural materials, and the use of brick, carpentry, and stained glass to honor human craft.
Explore Aubrey Beardsley's black-and-white illustrations and busy line work, exemplified by Salome and the peacock skirt, as a precursor of modern art and Art Nouveau.
Alfonse musher and R.P. Beardsley founded Art Nouveau, a style of natural organic forms with rhythmic curvy lines and ornate borders, seen in posters like Sarah Bernhardt and biscuit advertising.
Art nouveau emerges in architectural design through Victor author's Brussels buildings, exemplified by the two-storey bay window, wrought-iron curves, and interior whiplash forms.
Explore Hector Kumar DeMarte's art nouveau architecture in late 19th to early 20th century Paris, focusing on Louvre metro entrances with modular ironwork and flowing curves.
Explore art nouveau architecture and design in Vienna, highlighting the Vienna Secession, its sacred spring, Gustaf Klimt, and Otto Wagner, alongside iconic landmarks that transformed the city.
Explore Gaudí's Catalan modernism through Casa Milà and Casa Maciel in Barcelona, highlighting organic biomorphic forms, tile work, and light, plus the unfinished Sagrada Família.
Explore Art Nouveau architecture in America through architect James Hubbell Hubble at Rainbow Hill bed and breakfast, featuring organic forms, naturalist design, stone, stained glass, tiles, and flowing metal mosaics.
Art nouveau glass uses molten, organic forms to elevate craft and rebel against industrialization, shaping history through stained and cameo glass and inspirations from Japanese prints and Beardsley and Tiffany.
Explore the course catalog for Art Nouveau architecture, art and design; it's about art and design, and thanks.
This is a course on Art Nouveau architecture, art and design. Art nouveau is an art and design style inspired by natural, organic forms. We study the precedents and origins of this beautiful and original art. We next study the classic examples of this style of art and design as applied to architecture and other design expressions. This is a style based on fluid, sensual lines and forms. Art nouveau is a style that has had a profound effect on art, architecture and design. Though its origins are in the early 1900's, it continues to be relevant and enjoy wide acceptance and applications.
I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.
The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.
Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.