[Jewelry making - Article 00230] - [Orchid] Art nouveau design

[soulofwood]

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    Hi, Does  anyone on this sight understand art nouveau design? No one
    ever mentions it. What, there's no need?  Not jewelry so much, as
    the carving in the ceilings, or the ornamental ironwork(carved then
    cast), on the in and exterior of the buildings. Does anyone know the
    designs of Louis Sullivan, the (Pirie, Scott & Co.dept. store), and
    what they carve to make the detailed iron castings. Are their any
    Hector Guimard, Victor Horta, Galle, Riemerschmid, Gaudi fans out
    there? Do you know that the Art Nouveau movement, for many, was an
    attempt to bring the Arts & Crafts movement up to the level of Fine
    Arts, and also unite all forms of art into  societies, like the
    Bauhaus, Les Vingts(Monet, Van de velde), the english metal workers,
    etc. Another main objective was to let go of all conceptual symbols,
    even organic concepts, including copying nature directly. Or at
    least to abstract it, that was very popular, and of course, is the
    basis for most carving. But the use, purely, of line, imagination
    and feeling, is said to be art nouveau's greatest gift. And some
    damn gift, it turned out to be. There is nothing more incredible
    than Sullivan/Elmslie entrances and freizes, or Gaudi's Guell park,
    etc., or Guimard's Paris Metro entrances, or Horta's work!!!!!! I
    can't beleive that they rip these things down!!!! Over 60% of
    Sullivan's work has been demolished in Chicago. Never to be seen
    again, probably, in our in our children's, children's lifetimes. 

dp 

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