How Does Alphonse Mucha Epitomize The Art Nouveau?

Alphonse Maria Mucha 1860-1939 was a prolific Moravian (Czech Republic) painter of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and a key figure in the Art Nouveau movement. His style of painting influenced an entire generation of painters, graphic artists, and designers, his work epitomizes the Art Nouveau. Alphonse Maria Mucha was born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia the current region of the Czech Republic in 1871. Alphonse Mucha had a passion for singing and this allowed him receive education in the Moravian capital of Brno drawing had been is main hobby since childhood. In 1879 when he relocated to Vienna to work for a major Viennese theatrical design company, while informally augmenting his artistic education. In 1881 he did freelance decorative and portrait painting.
In 1990 universal exhibition in Paris spread the mucha style which he said brings aesthetic values into art and crafts. His art Noveau style was often imitated, but he tried to disassociate himself from that, he insisted that rather than adhering to fashionable style his painting was purely Czech art. Mucha's works frequently featured women in flowing vaguely Neoclassical looking robes, surrounded by lush flowers which formed haloes behind the women's heads. In contrast with contemporary poster makers he used paler pastel colors. Although it enjoys great popularity today, his style was considered old style as at the time of his death, his son Jiri Mucha devoted his time to writing about his