The look of art nouveau is so closely associated with the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha that it has sometimes been called “le ...

is a luxurious look at Alphonse Mucha's commercial genius. Best known for his decorative posters of actresses, the art nouveau master blurred the line between fine art and advertising. The show ...

On Christmas Eve 1894, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), a Czech junior designer working alone in a Parisian print shop, received a rush order from actress Sarah Bernhardt for a poster advertising her ...

enhanced by botanical wallpaper and lighting ... Inspired by the influential Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha, Gwen Sukeena of Sukeena Design Studio created a flower-filled room for a teenage ...

despite neglect by academic art historians. Since 1963, the Slav Epic has been displayed at a castle in Moravský Krumlov, a small town near his birthplace, seventeen miles southwest of second-city ...

Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster ... painstaking draftsman.” Mucha was a close observer of the world, drawing out the strange and fantastical. Art should project “moral ...

Running through May 18, Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line showcases the Czech artist’s art nouveau style and how it’s been replicated by countless artists since ...

The assignment fell to Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), and it not only ... establish him as one of the leading lights of the Art Nouveau style movement, creating a signature style ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alphonse Mucha won overnight fame in Belle Époque Paris on New Year’s Day 1895, when one of his sinuous ...

wood, scenic vistas, flowers, fabric, or architectural elements it imitates.” A fragment of antique wallpaper, Greer suggests, is precious enough to frame and hang as art.

The legacy of the prolific Czech Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha will soon be given an elevated status in central Prague with the opening of a new dedicated museum. The institution, a ...