art noveau images

Art Nouveau-French for "The New Art" An international art movement and style of decoration and architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Characterized by foliate forms, with sinous lines, and non-geometric, "whiplash" curves. 
Emile Galle (French, 1846-1904) Dragonfly Coupe, inlaid, blown, and trailed glass, internal metal-foil decoration, cut, engraved, ht 18.3 cm Corning Museum of glass, NY




Louis sullivan (American, 1856-1924) and George Grant Elmslie (American 1871-1952), Main entrance to the Schlesinger and Meyer Dept Store, Chicago, cast iron decor, 1899-1901


Antonio Gaudi, Wall clock from the Casa Mia Barcelona, 1906-1910, glided wood