§ I Like Art Nouveau

• Teaching Art Nouveau: 1890-1914
• fin de siecle : "turn of the century"
• decorative, decorative arts. Wanted to take art and make it applied.
• pantheistic approach to nature.
• Break from the past.
• Inspired also by Japanese and Islamic art.
• Looks like stuff designed by elves.
• Klimt, with gold foil, "cellular" looking blobs, japanese inspired perspectives. Judith and the head of Holofernes