If I had to think about an image that, ideally and globally, represents the spirit of the Art nouveaualmost certainly would bet on the well -known, represented and visualized poster of the great French theatrical actress Sara Bernard characterized in her role of Gismonda, … performed in 1894 by the Czech Alphense a lot. I am very clear that very rarely a single work has been able to reflect and symbolize in essence an artistic movement as in this case.
There is no doubt that only for that reason Alphense a lot (1860-1939) It would already deserve to be an essential part of Art Nouveau as one of its most seminal and significant representatives. But although it is firmly associated with this movement, its importance as an artist also transcends that label making it one of the main creators of its time, as well as a figure that It will combine artistic mastery and deep human, philosophical and supportive values.
Born in VATANCIC, a small city of Moravia that currently belongs to the Czech Republic, within a modest family, soon showed great talent for drawing, a gift that was improving academically, academically, First at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he knows the contemporary artistic movements, also acquiring the exceptional technical basis that would define his unmistakable style, and later in Paris, in the academic Julian and the Academie Colarossi.
There, in the capital of France, after executing various commercial art orders that will help you achieve acute understanding in the relationship between art and market, It is where his artistic career will really start, Especially after the great success he obtained in 1984 with the design of the poster that we have already mentioned.
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Its innovative design, of elegantly stylized linear figures, great profusion of intricate and decorative floral motifs, and a harmonious chromatic range, meant to reach a rapid and enormous public recognition. To a large extent, that personal and recognizable style, authentic creative seal of its own, contributed to the appearance and development of Art Nouveau.
It is a movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, simultaneously in various European cities, including Barcelona, where it will be called modernism and that will have in our country the very important figure of Antonio Gaudí, and next to him other key names such as Victor Horta in Brussels, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt in Vienna, And, of course, Alphense a lot, so linked to this movement that on a few occasions it will also be qualified as “it used a lot.”
Through their posters, decorative panels such as ‘The stations’ (1896) and ‘Las Flores’ (1898), paintings and illustrations, all characterized by the presence of stylized figures and of beautiful linear invoice, surrounded by intricate floral and natural designs , I would immediately achieve great success. In addition to these works, Its production was extended to jewelry design, Furniture, textiles, appliques and book illustrations.
From top to bottom, detail of ‘Monaco Monte-Carlo’ (1897); ‘Rêverie’ (1897-98); and fragment of ‘La Luna y las stars’, study for ‘La Estrella Polar’ (1902)
Thus, at the end of February, with the enthusiastic will and support of the artist’s own family, in collaboration with the Czech State, it will open with the exhibition ‘Alphense a lot: Art Nouveau and Utopia’, Divided into various thematic sections, a new Prague Museum dedicated to the figure of this plural artist.
He Savarin Palace, A splendid Baroque building located in the historic center, will be the headquarters of an important collection of works carried out by the Czech artist throughout his career, practically all of them owned by the family legacy, including a wide variety of expressive languages that demonstrate his great creative versatility, among others: paintings, drawings, posters, sculptures, sketches, photographs and objects linked to decorative arts, an area of creation in which a lot It will also be a very prominent figure worldwide and with which he sought to contribute beauty to everyday life.
It must also be ), a set of 20 canvases of enormous size, A personal panoramic view of the history and mythology of the Eslavo people, also an allegorical reflection by the way of its entrenched Masonic ideals, and is currently exposed outside Prague.
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‘Art Nouveau and Utopia’. Savarin Palace. Prague Calle Na Prikope, 10. Commissioner: Tomoko Sato. Since the end of February. Four stars.
Precisely this project perfectly exemplifies the deep love he professed throughout his life for his land, a fact that clearly does not convert it only into an artistic work, but something much deeper as it was like the nationalist will to celebrate and preserve the Slavic culture, Let us not forget, in a time of great political agitation, marked by cultural and social transformations that occurred in the Europe of Change of the century. This desire was undoubtedly one of his greatest personal yearnings.
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