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- Portrait_Female Oil Painting 365
Ks in the Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family, begun in 1883, construction ongoing) in Barcelona. Dominated by four disproportionately tall spires, the church appears to be a fantastical outgrowth of the earth. Floral designs cover the building facade, and broken tiles glitter on the rippa plantlike stem that terminates in a burst of intertwined tendrils as it connects with other structural elements. Similarly, French designer Hector Guimard designed entrances for the Metro stations in Paris (1898-1901) using simple metal and glass forms decorated with curvilinear wrought iron. These are especially memorable examples of art nouveau’s delightfully curving naturalistic forms. An interest in organic forms is also found in the work.
Yhat were flooding the English marketplace as the industrial revolution expanded. The arts and crafts movement also promoted a totally designed environment in which everything from wallpaper to silverware is made according to a unified design. British art nouveau designers of the 1890s shared Morris’s dedication to hand-crafted work and integrated designs. To these principles they added new forms and materials, esta Sezessionstil (secession style). Hoffmann utilized traditional building materials—marble, glass, and bronze—but arranged the building around an unconventional, asymmetrical entrance. Outlining the sober marble exterior walls are delicate bronze latticework and edging, which sugge.
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