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Poster from the exhibition 'From Mucha to Sendak'- Masterpieces of Illustration, Shenzhen, China, in 2022.

‘From Mucha to Sendak’: Masterpieces of Illustration, Shenzhen, China – until Sept 11th

This art exhibition in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, displays more than 200 paintings created by Alphonse Mucha and over 50 artists. Featured artists also include Jules Chéret, André Derain, Rene Gruau, Enid Blyton, Freddy Wittop and Maurice Sendak. The exhibits include watercolor paintings, oil paintings, collages, posters, illustrations, design manuscripts and prints. Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was a Czech painter […]

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Ursulines Winter Garden (Belgium, 1900) – The Reason Why

More than half a million people visited Gaudí exhibition in the Parisian Musée d’Orsay

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The Antoni Gaudí exhibition at the Orsay Museum in Paris, which closed last Sunday, has been a complete success with 551,852 visitors, the institution said on Wednesday. It is the museum’s second exhibition with the highest frequency of daily visitors, with 6,597 people on average, and the fourth with the highest total influx, the museum

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Palazzo Castiglioni wallpaper is beautiful and red.

Palazzo Castiglioni is a must-see in Milan

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Palazzo Castiglioni (1901-1903) is a grand palace in the Liberty style in Milan and the masterprice of Giuseppe Sommaruga (1867–1917). Its floral elements are combined with classical structures, as in the grandiose atrium. It was a palace built for a wealthy local businessman who wanted the building to reflect his status, its interiors are richly decorated. It was remodelled as an

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Cute yellow flowers on the façade of an art nouveau Alesund green building

Ålesund, the open-air museum of Norwegian Art Nouveau

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Alesund is an attractive town for tourists who enjoy Art Nouveau and Nature that includes fjords, mountains, waterfalls and aurora borealis. Also great food is served in the restaurants near the harbour. Most of its tourists arrive on Cruise. Tourism and the Cod business explain why Alesund is such a rich city within Norway, a country

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Alfons Maria Mucha, known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt.

Who was Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)?

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During his life Alphonse Mucha was an interior designer and decorator, graphic designer, illustrator and painter, both from poster and paintings. Born in Moravia (Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), he was the son of a bailiff. His father wanted to make him his successor, but his love for drawing since childhood was be

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Grand Palais, Paris. It is an exhibition hall and museum complex located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine.

Antoni Gaudí retrospective takes over the Musée d’Orsay in Paris – until July 17th 2022

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Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), architect and ingenious creator, made his mark on Spain at the turn of the 20th century and continues to fascinate today. For the first time in fifty years in France, a large-scale exhibition is devoted to this master of Art Nouveau. It will show the remarkable creativity of this singular artist, who

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Why Zelensky gave his non-surrender message in front of this art nouveau building?

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The morning after Russian missiles rained down on Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed the nation in a selfie video recorded in front of a curious building, not known by the majority of the audience, but of great interest. The \”House with Chimeras\” is an Art Nouveau landmark built between 1901 and 1903 and covered

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh design, Scotland, UK.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style exhibit opens at Albuquerque Museum -October 30th

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The American Federation of Arts presents Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, an immersive exhibition that showcases Charles Rennie Mackintosh as an architect, designer and artist, and contextualizes his production within a larger circle of designers and craftspeople in Scotland’s capital. The exhibition opens at Albuquerque Museum on October 30, 2021. Previously, the Frist Art Museum

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In the golden obsessions of Gustav Klimt – Ateneo Mercantil, Valencia

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The exhibition ‘Klimt’s Gold’, at the Ateneo Mercantil de València, shows a chronological journey through the life and work of the Viennese painter through a multimedia, immersive and sensory montage. Gustav Klimt (Vienna, 1862 – 1918) was an artist of obsessions. His work shone between two styles: symbolism and the modernist movement of the Viennese

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