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Art Nouveau is an international movement and style of art, architecture and ........ —especially the decorative arts start learning
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Art Nouveau is an international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts
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........ - arts that are put to practical use start learning
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applied art - arts that are put to practical use
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Art Nouveau ... in popularity around the turn of the 20th century (1890–1914) start learning
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Art Nouveau peaked in popularity around the turn of the 20th century (1890–1914)
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Art Nouveau is also known as ........ in Germany, Stile Liberty in Italy, Modernisme in Spain. start learning
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Art Nouveau is also known as Jugendstil in Germany, Stile Liberty in Italy, Modernisme in Spain.
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It is characterized by organic, especially floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as highly-stylized, flowing ........ forms. start learning
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it is characterized by organic, especially floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as highly-stylized, flowing curvilinear forms.
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Art Nouveau's fifteen-year ....... was most strongly felt throughout Europe—from Glasgow to Moscow to Spain—but its influence was global start learning
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Art Nouveau's fifteen-year peak was most strongly felt throughout Europe—from Glasgow to Moscow to Spain—but its influence was global
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..., it is known in various guises with frequent localised tendencies. start learning
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Hence, it is known in various guises with frequent localised tendencies.
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Victor Horta had a ........ impact on architecture in Belgium. start learning
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Victor Horta had a decisive impact on architecture in Belgium.
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Art Nouveau was also a movement of ....... individuals such as Gustav Klimt, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Alfons Mucha, René Lalique, Antoni Gaudí and Louis Comfort Tiffany, each of whom interpreted it in their own individual manner. start learning
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Art Nouveau was also a movement of distinct individuals such as Gustav Klimt, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Alfons Mucha, René Lalique, Antoni Gaudí and Louis Comfort Tiffany, each of whom interpreted it in their own individual manner.
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Although Art Nouveau ........ with the arrival of 20th-century modernist styles, it is seen today as an important bridge between the historicism of Neoclassicism and modernism. start learning
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Although Art Nouveau fell out of favor with the arrival of 20th-century modernist styles, it is seen today as an important bridge between the historicism of Neoclassicism and modernism.
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Furthermore, Art Nouveau monuments are now recognized by UNESCO on their World Heritage List as significant contributions to cultural ........ start learning
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Furthermore, Art Nouveau monuments are now recognized by UNESCO on their World Heritage List as significant contributions to cultural heritage.
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One of the central ........ of Art Nouveau was to create a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art where all of the different elements combined to make a unified whole. start learning
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Art Nouveau architects often designed the interior, including the decor and furniture, with this principle in mind.
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The construction of his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels in 1892-3 is often ........ as the first introduction of the art nouveau style to architecture. start learning
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Victor Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture. The construction of his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels in 1892-3 is often credited as the first introduction of the art nouveau style to architecture.
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Horta was inspired to........ interior iron structure with curvilinear botanical forms, which was known as “biomorphic whiplash,” to create the first Art Nouveau architecture. start learning
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Horta was inspired to incorporate interior iron structure with curvilinear botanical forms, which was known as “biomorphic whiplash,” to create the first Art Nouveau architecture.
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After Art Nouveau lost......., many of Horta's buildings were destroyed. start learning
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After Art Nouveau lost favor, many of Horta's buildings were destroyed.
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........ - to include something as part of something larger start learning
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Incorporate - to include something as part of something larger
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Hector Guimard - his best work was done in a relatively short fifteen years of........ creative activity start learning
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Hector Guimard - his best work was done in a relatively short fifteen years of prolific creative activity
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Someone or something that is ........ is fruitful or highly productive. start learning
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Someone or something that is prolific is fruitful or highly productive.
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Hector Guimard designed the Castel Béranger, which ........ a tension between a medieval sense of geometrical volume, and the organic "whiplash" lines start learning
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Hector Guimard designed the Castel Béranger, which displays a tension between a medieval sense of geometrical volume, and the organic "whiplash" lines
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Hector Guimard designed The Hotel Guimard with...... rooms contain unique pieces of furniture, which are considered integral parts of the building. start learning
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Hector Guimard designed The Hotel Guimard with ovoid rooms contain unique pieces of furniture, which are considered integral parts of the building.
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Antoni Gaudí. It is widely ........ that Gaudi is a part of Barcelona. start learning
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Antoni Gaudí It is widely acknowledged that Gaudi is a part of Barcelona.
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Antoni Gaudí. He ........ highly original designs – irregular and fantastically intricate, which belonged to the Art Nouveau movement start learning
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Antoni Gaudí. He contrived highly original designs – irregular and fantastically intricate, which belonged to the Art Nouveau movement
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........- showing effects of planning or manipulation start learning
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contrived - showing effects of planning or manipulation
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Throughout his life, Gaudi studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs and mosaics. Instead of relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way men stand ........ start learning
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Throughout his life, Gaudi studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs and mosaics. Instead of relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way men stand upright.
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Gaudí's originality was at first........ by his peers. start learning
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Gaudí's originality was at first ridiculed by his peers.
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........-the act of making fun of someone or something in a cruel or harsh way start learning
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ridicule -the act of making fun of someone or something in a cruel or harsh way
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The Sagrada Familia church is the most famous ........ Barcelona by Antoni Gaudí. start learning
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The Sagrada Familia church is the most famous landmark Barcelona by Antoni Gaudí.
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His fellow citizens referred to the Casa Milà as La Pedrera ("the ......"). start learning
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His fellow citizens referred to the Casa Milà as La Pedrera ("the quarry").
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish) start learning
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish) start learning
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Louis Comfort Tiffany (American) start learning
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Antoni Gaudí (Spanish Catalan) start learning
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was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement start learning
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Decorative patterns were often used by Gustav Klimt in his paintings. Die Umarmung ("The Embrace")
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was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style start learning
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was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellry, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments start learning
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was an Austro-Hungarian architect and urban planner, known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmark start learning
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was a Russian architect and civil engineer of Baltic German descent start learning
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Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long,........, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration. start learning
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Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line,
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It was a deliberate attempt to create a new style, free of the ........ historicism that dominated much of 19th-century art and design. start learning
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It was a deliberate attempt to create a new style, free of the imitative historicism that dominated much of 19th-century art and design.
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........ made or done to be like something or someone else start learning
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imitative - made or done to be like something or someone else
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The term Art Nouveau ........ a gallery in Paris that exhibited much of this work start learning
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The term Art Nouveau was coined by a gallery in Paris that exhibited much of this work
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to coin - to devise (a new word or phrase).
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...- to form, plan, or arrange in the mind; design or contrive start learning
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to devise - to form, plan, or arrange in the mind; design or contrive
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In England the style’s immediate ........ were the Aestheticism of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, who depended heavily on the expressive quality of organic line and the Arts and Crafts movement of William Morris, who established the importance of a vital style in the applied arts start learning
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In England the style’s immediate precursors were the Aestheticism of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, who depended heavily on the expressive quality of organic line
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On the European continent, Art Nouveau was also influenced by experiments with ........ line by the painters Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. start learning
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On the European continent, Art Nouveau was also influenced by experiments with expressive line by the painters Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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was a French post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. start learning
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?,
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century start learning
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allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, life of those times.
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Something that is....... attracts you to it by offering you advantages or pleasure: start learning
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omething that is enticing attracts you to it by offering you advantages or pleasure:
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The movement was also partly inspired by a ...... for the linear patterns of Japanese prints (ukiyo-e). start learning
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The movement was also partly inspired by a vogue for the linear patterns of Japanese prints (ukiyo-e).
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The definition of....... is something popular or fashionable. start learning
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The definition of vogue is something popular or fashionable.
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The ........ ornamental characteristic of Art Nouveau is its undulating, asymmetrical line, often taking the form of flower stalks and buds, insect wings, and other delicate and sinuous natural objects; start learning
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The distinguishing ornamental characteristic of Art Nouveau is its undulating, asymmetrical line, often taking the form of flower stalks and buds, insect wings, and other delicate and sinuous natural objects;
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the line may be elegant and graceful or infused with a powerfully rhythmic and ....... like force start learning
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the line may be elegant and graceful or infused with a powerfully rhythmic and whiplike force
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In the graphic arts the line ........ all other pictorial elements—form, texture, space, and colour—to its own decorative effect. start learning
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In the graphic arts the line subordinates all other pictorial elements—form, texture, space, and colour—to its own decorative effect.
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In architecture, the whole of the three-dimensional form becomes ........ in the organic, linear rhythm, creating a fusion between structure and ornament. start learning
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In architecture, the whole of the three-dimensional form becomes engulfed in the organic, linear rhythm, creating a fusion between structure and ornament.
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...... is defined as to completely cover, surround, or overwhelm start learning
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to engulf is defined as to completely cover, surround, or overwhelm
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........ - two or more things join or are combined start learning
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fusion- an occasion when two or more things join or are combined
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ironwork, glass, ceramic, and brickwor ...... start learning
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arts and crafts - art nouveau shared the same belief in quality goods and fine craftsmanship but was happy with ........ start learning
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arts and crafts - art nouveau shared the same belief in quality goods and fine craftsmanship but was happy with mass production
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