Task 3

'The fin de siecle'

Glasgow-  Margaret Macdonald
Margaret and the other artists she would work with didn't keep sketchbooks, they relied on imagination for main sources of inspiration for their work. Other sources of inspiration included poetry and the bible. I think this shows in her work. As you can see her work is very peaceful and depicts beautiful women, flora and symmetry.

Vienna- Gustav Klimt
This Austrian painter was considered one of the most prominent artists of the art nouveau movement in Vienna. Klimt often travelled to Venice and Ravenna, this easily was a large influence on how his work turned out looking, as he was inspired by the many mosaics he saw there. You can see this through his almost abstract depictions of clothes and backgrounds in his paintings. 

Nancy- Emile Galle
​Galle was yet again another leader in the art nouveau movement although his preferred medium was glass work rather than more traditional mediums. He was considered an innovator of the movement as he took techniques such as glass marquetry and pushed it to its limits, proving to make new wonderful and colourful glass pieces as ever previously made.
His work also involves flora and natural forms but unlike the other works doesn't involve women, usually just flowers and wildlife.

Madrid- architecture 
In Madrid I couldn't find just one artist that stood out. There wasn't much in paintings either or even sculpture, but the art nouveau architecture was very prominent as shown here.
Much like the other art in this style, these buildings didn't have any harsh lines and were usually made up of soft and light colours too.

In conclusion, Art nouveau had an impact on artists all over the world, everything from painters to architects. The context of each artist and where they were from impacted how different the work looked however, causing art noveau to be less strict of a movement. Majority of the work all had things in common still though, such as incorporating soft lines, colours and nature inspired themes. Although they shared these similarities, each artist was very individual in this era.