Art Nouveau

Beginning with the art movement 'Art Nouveau' it becomes clear that trends have even been set as far back as the 1890's. The movement Art Nouveau seemed to be at its peak between 1890-1910 and came back around in the 1960's. It was most popular around Europe and was very big in Paris and London. Art Nouveau became not only an artform but aspects of furniture, jewellery and other household objects aswell as being involved in architecture. Some of the first artists to kick start this art movement were people like Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. Together they were two of the most influential members of the loose collective at the Glasgow School of Art. Aswell as the pair an artist named Alphonse Mucha seem to stand out for me in the world of Art Nouveau. Mucha was the very first commercial illustrator creating very large paintings aswell as posters for advertising purposes. His paintings generally consisted of floral patternings, flowing lines and edges, portraits of beautiful woman and very subtle, pastel colours.

Moodboards

When Faced with this current project I decided the best thing to do firstly would be to explore and research into the past fifty years and find out what has happened. I collected this information from the past 50 years and presented it in the form of mind maps aswell as creating moodboards on Pinterest including imagery of the music and artists around at that particular time.

This is my mindmap for the 1950's 

This is a link to my moodboard for the 1950's

http://pinterest.com/hrmxxxxx/1950s/

1960's

1960's Moodboard

http://pinterest.com/hrmxxxxx/1960s/

1970's

1970's Moodboard

http://pinterest.com/hrmxxxxx/1970s/

1980's

1980's Moodboard

http://pinterest.com/hrmxxxxx/1980s/

1990's

1990's Moodboard

http://pinterest.com/hrmxxxxx/1990s/

I have also explored the first 50 years of art in the form of a moodboard

http://pinterest.com/hrmxxxxx/50-years-of-art/

When discovering and exploring the many different art movements that have come about over the past fifty years, I began to notice lots of links and patterns in the art movements themselves to music, genres and even links with fashion. It seems that over the years these art movements have become the most influential products for the majority of trends that have been discovered and then rediscovered over time.