Art Nouveau vs. Art Deco PDF

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A new movement in fine art in the late 1890s. Professor: Julie Harlan....

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DAA 2100 Intro To Dance — Flex Class #3 (09/19/18) By the late 1890s, a new movement in fine art was making it's way into the world of ballet:! Art Nouveau. To be considered a serious artist, individuals had to: ⁃ attend one of the many arts academies. ⁃ commit to a rigorous study of line, shape, form, and texture with an ultimate goal to produce paintings of idealized figures/landscapes. Academic art is rubbish; “Art isn’t meant to be studied like science or math. Art flows from the soul, twists through the consciousness, and decorates life with its beauty.” ⁃ Lasted from around 1890-1910. 20 years. ⁃ Art Nouveau means “New art” in French. ⁃ Moved away from imitation of real subjects toward flowing and twisting lines of nature. ⁃ Curves, influenced by Japanese simplicity, muted colors (olive green, carnation pink, and periwinkle blue), rich 2D imagery, and post-impressionists. ⁃ Can be found in paintings, sculptures, architecture, jewelry, graphics, etc. ⁃ Artists strove for harmony and continuity in design. ⁃ Book covers and playbills ⁃ Stained glass Gustave Klimt = Art Nouveau at its most dominant ⁃ The Kiss ⁃

Led to Modernism and Art Deco

In the early 1900s, a new choreographer emerged on the Russian Ballet scene: Mikhail Fokine (Michel Fokine while in Paris).! He is one of the key players in how ballet changed from a Classical to Art Nouveau expression.!! One of his more famous choreographic works was The Dying Swan, which he created for a woman named Anna Pavlova, one of the world's most famous ballerinas ever.! The piece was originally choreographed in 1905 for a party in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was choreographed to the composer Camille St. Saens' The Swan.! Anna Pavlova subsequently toured the world for another twenty five years, performing this short solo work most places that she performed, which is why this work (And Pavlova herself) are some of the most well known ballet works to this day. 0. How does The Dying Swan fit Art Nouveau ⁃ The subject matter of the swan deals with nature, as opposed to the imitation of real people and royalty, like we have been used to so far. Also, her

movements were flowing and twisting into curves and shapes, like that of Art Nouveau culture. Another of Fokine's famous ballets is called Petrouchka (1911).! This piece was created on another famous dancer of the time, Vaslav Najinski (not to be confused with Najinska, his sister and also a dancer).! The music was composed by Igor Stravinsky 0. How does Petrouchka fit into Art Nouveau? ⁃ The colorful, patterned costumes and the simplistic choreography in Petrouchka stray away from the traditional ballet styles we’re used to: plain, monotone colors, or regal dresses, and grand pas de deux, Another innovation in the dance world in the early 1900s was the advent of moving pictures: films.! Dancers made great subjects for the inventors of film, and subsequently, we have very early recordings of dance, dating back to 1903.! One such film is of Loie Fuller. 0. What about the skirt around her neck seems to fit the Art Nouveau ideal? ⁃ She uses the skirt to create flowing and twisting curve shapes, typical for Art Nouveau. The dance is also called the serpentine dance, which relates to nature, also typical for Art Nouveau. 0. What of this movement fits the Art Nouveau ideal? ⁃ Similar to the last video, the dancers movements are flowing and twisting to create shapes and curves with her arms and wrists. Hold on to your hats, it's about to get confusing.! During these two weeks, we are going to see ballet shift from Russia, back to France, to Monte Carlo,! and abroad (England, US, even Australia and South America).! One of the reasons ballet bounced here there and everywhere is a man named Sergei Diaghilev - a Russian Impresario (today's equivalent would be a financially backing producer). 0. The First World War put a strain on the Russian empire, leading to its eventual collapse in 1917; this could be a potential reason why ballet moved from Russia and bounced around all over the world between 1905 to 1929. For next week:! Familiarize yourself (do research), on the Ballet Russe - there are SEVERAL different iterations of them, and it may be helpful to create a diagram or family tree to keep track of it all....