How Art Nouveau influenced the Digital Arts

How Art Nouveau lived on in the Digital Arts:

It’s been decades since the Art Nouveau Style started and vanished after the 1910’s. Although it’s importance in the applied arts and in the architecture itself remained and quite lively I might say. The style affected graphic design so much it has the right to say that it was a major influence to both the history and styles of art.

The most people that were influenced by this art style were illustrators, artists and the printing trade especially in America. During the post-war 60’s hippie movement there was a revival for the Art Nouveau Movement. Nowadays the effects and best features of Art Nouveau can be seen throughout all of the visual communication industry such as the famous painting of Marilyn Munroe  called “Visages de Renom” which was made by a New York based illustrator Les Katz. Another artist that made works of the same technique was Milton Glaser.

20 years later, the Art Nouveau has been re-evaluated because of the sudden rise of Post-Modern Design. Artist from all the corners of the around the world are making use and being inspired from the characteristics of the style such as the floral elements, the natural features and the charismatic colours and  they are incorporating them within their works.

This style can be still found in today’s fanciest homes, including both the architecture and the furniture itself. The designs of homes which have Art Nouveau decorations in them are pin-pointed by the various prints and decorative shapes which are used in the decoration of walls or in the tapestry itself. They are also used in the textiles and artistic artefacts found in these homes. 

This style also affected the digital arts and everything that is related. There is a site called deviantart where people from around the world submit both traditional works and digital art.  There artists who in both traditional and digital art have incorporated the Art Nouveau influences with modern day themes such as fan-art, original works etc.  I selected these two works because aesthetically they are exceptionally wonderful and the influences are quite visible in there such as the whiplash curves and the colouring style of the Art Nouveau.

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