This month I am studying “Creating art nouveau posters”
This month I am studying how to create posters in the Art Noeveau style in a class called, oddly enough, “Creating art nouveau posters.”
Every time I think of art nouveau I think “art deco.”
The two aren’t exactly related and are world’s apart in their aesthetic.
Art nouveau’s period is late 19th century, circa 1880, and was in response to the industrial revolution and the societal upheaval that was wrought by that.
Art deco was early 20th century, circa 1920, and was in response (partially) to the depression of the World War I era.
Art nouveau is the flowery one.
Art deco is the streamlined one.
But it is still fixed in my head that when I hear “art nouveau” my brain flits to the “art deco” lamps in our bedroom.
Either way, it will be interesting to study the drawing style and create some overly decorated posters in the appropriate style.