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  • noun art nouveau

Etymologies

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From the French.

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Examples

  • He produced numerous posters, illustrations and theatre sets in what was at first called the Mucha Style, but later became known as Art Nouveau

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • He produced numerous posters, illustrations and theatre sets in what was at first called the Mucha Style, but later became known as Art Nouveau

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • The late 1800 to early 1900 produced the ornaments called Art Nouveau jewelries.

    Vintage Culture 2009

  • The band was originally founded in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire (UK), in 1979, as a four-piece avant-garde instrumental group, called Art Nouveau, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar,

    Side-Line news feed 2008

  • With 35 dealers from across the United States and Europe, the four-day AD 20/21 features an outstanding array of fine art as well as decorative arts in all disciplines representing design movements such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern.

    Antique News News! 2010

  • With 35 dealers from across the United States and Europe, the four-day AD 20/21 features an outstanding array of fine art as well as decorative arts in all disciplines representing design movements such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern.

    Antique News News! 2010

  • Parisian influences such as Art Nouveau inspired some printmakers to create more florid, neo-Romantic patterns, like that for the opera star Lillian Russell, whose photographed face peers through a window-box like a flower bud surrounded by intertwining vines and leaves.

    PopMatters 2009

  • I hope Lady Godiva of chocolate fame will forgive me but the sweetest and most lingering memory of my trip to Brussels is the jewel like architecture of Victor Horta and his Art Nouveau colleagues.

    Edward Goldman: A City Awash in Art, Beer and Chocolate Edward Goldman 2011

  • I hope Lady Godiva of chocolate fame will forgive me but the sweetest and most lingering memory of my trip to Brussels is the jewel like architecture of Victor Horta and his Art Nouveau colleagues.

    Edward Goldman: A City Awash in Art, Beer and Chocolate Edward Goldman 2011

  • I hope Lady Godiva of chocolate fame will forgive me but the sweetest and most lingering memory of my trip to Brussels is the jewel like architecture of Victor Horta and his Art Nouveau colleagues.

    Edward Goldman: A City Awash in Art, Beer and Chocolate Edward Goldman 2011

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