first recorded 1901, French, literally "new art" (see novel (adj.)). Called in German Jugendstil.

Decorative style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that flourished principally in Europe and the U.S. Although it influenced painting and sculpture, its chief manifestations were in architectu [..]

Art nouveau is an international style in architecture and design that emerged in the 1890s and is characterised by sinuous lines and flowing organic shapes based on plant forms

Art nouveau was a decorative movement which reached its zenith in the period 1893-1907. The Parque Güell Barcelona (started 1900) is the most famous art nouveau garden.

Art nouveau is a term in art criticism and art history that refers to a decorative style that spread from London over much of Europe in the period 1880–1914.

A style of jewellery popluar from the late nineteenth century until about 1918. Art nouveau jewellery is characterised by gentle curves and organic designs

literally ‘new art’ in French. An ornate decorative style in visual arts and architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, derived from forms in nature. Associated with Romanticism, Symbolis [..]

A late-nineteenth-century decorative style that was based on natural forms. It was the first style to reject historical references and create its own design vocabulary, which included stylized curved [..]

Art Nouveau is a decorative style (circa 1890-1914) noted for its free-flowing lines and natural motifs.

Highly decorative artistic style, popular at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Heavy use is made of ornamentally curving lines and shapes derived from flower and plant motifs.

A decorative art style prevalent between 1895 and 1905, it is characterized by sinuous vines, tendril motifs and curving, often-swirling shapes based on flowing organic forms. It was an outgrowth of t [..]

A decorative art style, especially associated with sinuous vines and tendril motifs-curving, often-swirling shapes based on flowing organic forms. It was prevalent between 1895 to 1905, and was an out [..]

A style of architecture and art popular in the 20th century.

That period in art and architecture between circa 1888 and 1914 and had its roots in organic natural forms and plant shapes. Also subsumed the Arts & Crafts style of Morris, Voysey et al, which style attempted to revert to hand crafts and skills threatened by industrialisation: very much part of the Victorian romantic movement.

An art style of the late 1800's featuring curving, often swirling shapes based on organic forms.

A decorative art movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century; art characterized by dense asymmetrical ornamentation in sinuous forms, it is often symbolic and of an erotic nature.

The words mean “new art” but this 1890’s movement was mainly a style of decor and architecture. Most popular in Belgium and England, it was known in Germany and Austria as “Jugendstil” and in Italy as [..]

painting, prints, works on paper, sculpture. This movement pervaded a variety of mediums, but was most prominent in architecture and design. Distinctive by an organic, asymmetrical, decorative style, [..]

It may seem interesting to note that art nouveau was first thought to be modern architecture. The interesting thing is that it was started around 1890 and uses curved lines and were often time asymmet [..]

Characterized by organic floral and plant-inspired designs, as well as stylized, flowing meandering forms. The flat-perspective and strong colors of Japanese woodcuts was a major influence on this mov [..]

A style of art which influenced painting, sculpture, printmaking, architecture, furniture design and decorative design in the first decade on either side of 1900. The french word Art nouveau literally [..]

Though relatively short lived, the Art Nouveau style, which appeared in the 1880s and faded out by the First World War, had a dramatic impact, influencing not only the decorative arts, but also painti [..]

Thriving in Europe and the United States from the late nineteenth century until the First World War, this decorative style, characterized by flowing organic shapes and serpentine lines, had an impact [..]

Art style based on organic forms featuring swirling shapes and curves

An international movement that is characterized by organic, plant-inspired motifs as well as highly stylized curvilinear forms that peaked in popularity at or around the turn of the 20th Century.

Decorative art style popular in Europe and North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is characterised by flowing lines based on plant forms.

A style of painting, printmaking, architecture and decorative design developed in England in the 1880s. Art Nouveau, primarily an ornamental style, was not only a protest against the sterile Realism, but against the whole drift toward industrialization and mechanization, and the unnatural artifacts they produced. The style is characterized by the u [..]

French for "new art". A painting, printmaking, decorative design, and architectural style developed in England in the 1880s. Art Nouveau, primarily an ornamental style, was not only a protest against the sterile Realism, but against the whole drift toward industrialization and mechanization and the unnatural artifacts they produce [..]

A style of art and architecture popular from the late 19th into the early 20th Centuries. It is characterised by strongly stylized forms taken from nature, such as leaves and flowers. It can be seen i [..]

An international style at the turn of the century present in fine arts, industrial design and architecture. Its name varied from country to country (Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Style 1900, etc.). It is c [..]