Art Nouveau Research Paper

The assignment this week was to write a two-page paper describing how the Victorian Movement, Arts and Crafts Movement, and Art Nouveau Movements were related and/or impacted each other. In order to accomplish this task, one would have to explore the origins of Art Nouveau. Upon reading the selected reading and reviewing the required videos it was clear that it could be argued as to which was the last movement of the Nineteenth-century or the first movement of the Twentieth-century. Additionally, it could be concluded from the selected reading that Art Nouveau best fits into the end and the beginning of the Arts and Crafts movement, dating from 1895 to 1905. It was a continuation of the older arts and crafts movement of the British designer, William Morris.
Art Nouveau was based upon a vision born of the horrified reaction of William Morris of a poorly decorated and defaced design at the Great Exposition of 1851 in London. The creation of Prince
I guess, it could be asked. “Is Art Nouveau truly a new art?” It is meant to educate and improve taste that was, presumably, doomed. Like the Arts and Crafts movement before Art nouveau, many artists found that the time for handcrafted goods had passed. One-of-a-kind objects became luxury goods for cultured tastes and large pocketbooks. Art Nouveau, like the art of William Morris and this English Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1860s, was essentially a connoisseur’s art. Art Nouveau intended to marry art and craft and was not meant for the masses. It was a luxury art with a limited customer base. This art was mass-produced and widely distributed, however, like many art styles of the avant-garde, Art Nouveau ended after only ten years. Art Nouveau had one attitude about form and function and that was--the form of the object should express its function and this function should be expressed through decorative