Painting (Series: Interiors - 612)
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Fed into mysterious shapes that suggest a fantasy world. The work of German architect August Endell shares this visionary quality. Endell sought to create intense, dynamic forms that would evoke a strong response in the viewer. His plaster relief sculpture for the exterior of Munich’s Elvira Photo Studio (1896-1897) does just that. Part dragon, part flying sea creature, part tidal wa895, Buffalo, New York), Carson Pirie Scott department store (1899-1904, Chicago, Illinois), and other structures. Whether in wrought iron or terra cotta, Sullivan’s ornamentation is based on plantlike forms and patterns of complex, interlocking lines. Art nouveau represents the beginning of modernism in design ( see Modern.
A of line and distinctive double-curves known as whiplash lines have become equated with British art nouveau in the popular imagination. In Glasgow, Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh also developed a rectilinear version of art nouveau, which he employed in numles; but in Vienna they expressed this through an increasing simplification of form. Rather than embracing the writhing organic forms of Endell or Obrist in Munich, Viennese artists moved towards the restrained geometric designs exemplified by the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A case in point is the Palais Stoclet (190.
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