Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cycle of taste that characterizes the field of modern decoration, interior designers have once again turned to the stylized patterns that were innovated by the Art Nouveau school of the late 1890's. Art historians, ever sensitive to such trends, have just recently produced a flurry of books to document this fin de siecle style. As if to dignify the Nouveau group, the scholars have even proposed a number of somewhat questionable theories about its far-reaching importance for modern painters, most notably, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edward Munch and even Monet...
...present show at the Busch-Reisinger, three rooms are devoted to Nouveau objets d'art and the graphics of some artists influenced by the school--Beardsley, Charles Ricketts and, true to recent art scholarship, the masters, Lautrec and Munch...
Fashion today has almost come to the point where it easily accepts Art Nouveau furnishings. In fact, Nouveau pieces often seem so modern that one finds it hard to believe that they were modish sixty years ago. The swatches of material designed by Richard Riemerschmid would fit wonderfully in a modern interior. The chair and three-legged table by Hector Guimard, the leader of the Parisian branch of the international Art Nouveau movement, combine tasteful flourishes with beautifully smooth wood surfaces and simple, elegant forms. In an elaborate Guimard picture frame, though, the typical Nouveau tendency towards overdecoration is manifest...
Today, along with rising interest in the Art Nouveau movement of the 1890's, Beardsley has been brought once more into the limelight. As the show in Lamont testifies, his gifts were indeed impressive--he was a fine caricaturist (see his amusing sketch of Mendelssohn), his mastery of line at times equals Ingres' and his formal arrangements recall the brilliance of Toulouse-Lautrec. Though he was a clumsy landscapist, incompetent in his handling of perspective and an uninventive colorist, he had the good sense to play down these weaknesses and concentrated instead on the flat black and white sketches...
...Manhattan's off-Broadway Royal Playhouse, Anna's little breadwinner is on the boards again, in its first New York revival since 1924. With riotous good faith and not the hint of a blush, Fashion trots out the family Tiffany, a nouveau riche clan headed by a mother given to haughty generalizations on the conduct of the "ee-light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant...