What are the characteristics of an Art Nouveau piece?
Art Nouveau pieces have many curvilinear lines incorporated into their designs and are more organic, focusing on vines, flowers, leaves, insects, birds and, in many cases, women’s bodies and faces. As with any movement when creative human beings interact, there were not clean lines of demarcation in Art Nouveau. For example, the effects of the Industrial Revolution influenced the direction individual Art Nouveau artists took, although artists did not all go on the same path. Some artists embraced the new technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution. Architects were particularly blessed to have innovations such as steel-reinforced concrete, electric lights and elevators and more ceramic tiling for decoration. On the other hand, some Art Nouveau artists disliked the changes that the Industrial Revolution brought to society and chose to seep their work in mysticism or ancient mythology. Additionally, the Art Nouveau period did not start in 1880 and end with the advent o
