Alphonse Maria Mucha.
1860-1939
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/mucha.htm
How can I describe the art of a god?
http://www.museumshop.net/images/muchaposters/new/mucha-music.gif
http://www.shibayama-co-ltd.co.jp/mucha/hinageshi.jpg
http://www.shibayama-co-ltd.co.jp/mucha/hyacinta.jpg
http://www.thefineartcompany.co.uk/figurative/mucha-ra5.jpg
While I wouldn’t quite call him a god, Mucha was the muzi!
Anyway, I don’t think advertisements ever looked so good. Those colors! The Slavic epics are absolutely brilliant. I just wish someone had a decent collection of his art in print so I could wallpaper my place with it.
If you’re on LJ, Bosda, I recently posted an entry in my journal with a bunch of Mucha images and very simple icons that I made. I think I friends locked it, but if you want to the link let me know and I’ll check and then e-mail it to you.
I personally love Art Nouveau. I really must get around to my goal of being one of Mucha’s postergirls for Halloween. A pale imitation of the original, but if would be so much fun to dress diaphonously and be flower-bedecked.
I think Art Nouveau is my favorite, and I like your favorite artist alot Bosda, but i think he can’t replace Gustav Klimpt as mine.
Klimpt was known to keep working and detailing his portraits until the patron came and took it away. Sometimes the subject gets lost in the pattern and I still love them.
Intellectually I adore the simplicity of Monet’s later work, where every line or drop of paint is essential, but the clutter of Klimpt speaks to my soul, or at least I recognise myself there.
Mucha is quite the favorite in our household as well. We have a print of his Four Seasons hanging above our bed. I’d like to get his four "Star"s prints as well, but I’ve only seen those sold as four individual prints, and that gets kinda expensive.