So here is the final verdict on your preferences in art:
Style: art nouveau
Genre: genre painting
The style of
art nouveau appeared with the rising tide of interest for ethnic and natural forms and the revived attention to Oriental art, the French Rococo that brought forward the plentiful ornate and decorative quality of the paintings, plant-derived forms, flowing dynamic lines, and the fancy pattern of the canvases.
The main idea behind art nouveau is “back to nature”. The aesthetics of art nouveau is best revealed in landscapes, portraits and nudes. Everyday scenes provide less material for the aesthetic message of the style – delicate stylization and ornamentality. Art nouveau genre paintings provide no monumental ideas or grave messages compared to realists and romanticists, no insights into the essence of the type or a phenomenon. Like impressionists, art nouveau artists depict a current moment, no philosophy attached. But unlike the impressionists who opt to reveal the ephemeral fleeting moment, the bright impressions and the tricks of light, in art nouveau the figures, people and objects are part of the pattern, a picturesque element of the intricate composition that is essentially decorative in its purpose.
A person who likes art nouveau genre paintings stands out for his perception of life. He creates his own small and cosy cosmos and has a very thorough screeing process for the people to sneak in. He won’t ever waste his energy and time for needless things, negative thinking and self-criticism. He thinks fasts, makes fast decisions, and is focusing on opportunities to make his own cosmos and the external world a little bit better, each day, one single baby step at a time.
Must See for you:
Maitres: K. Somov, Filipp Maliavin, Léon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Kustodiev Boris (Russia), Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (France), Peter Behrens (Germany), Carl Larsson (Sweden), Saturnino Herran Guinchard (Mexico), Aubrey Beardsley (Great Britain)
Modern artists: S. Teterin, A. Krasnaya, I. Chebotareva (Russia).
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