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On the finish of the nineteenth century, Alphonse Mucha created a sensation within the streets of Paris together with his posters representing the French actress Sarah Bernhardt. His paintings introduced the recent inventive sort paintings Nouveau, and gained its author status and inventive renown. notwithstanding, Mucha's expertise used to be by no means limited to lithography. Shading the area with a colorful sensuality, Mucha's paintings additionally expresses itself within the monumental �Read more...
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The scandal was duly explained and in the end worked out to my advantage. The whole town knew that a painter had come to live at the Lion. In the course of time, I painted the whole neighbourhood – all the uncles and aunts of Mikulov. Monaco • Monte-Carlo 1897 Colour lithograph, 110 x 76 cm. Mucha Museum, Prague. qxp 12/16/2010 9:30 AM Page 44 It was while he was living in Mikulov that Mucha encountered the first of the two patrons who were to transform his career. One was a wealthy local landowner called Count Khuen, who invited Mucha to decorate the dining room in the newly-built castle of Emmahof with frescoes.
Eighteen Eighty-Eight was a momentous year in the early history of modern art. Fully recovered from the traumas of the Franco-Prussian War and the bloody massacres of the Commune, Paris was in full glory and the undisputed culture and pleasure capital of the Western world. Lily (from The Four Flowers series) 1898 Colour lithograph, 100 x 41 cm. Mucha Museum, Prague. qxp 12/16/2010 9:37 AM Page 64 Preparations were in hand for the forthcoming Exposition Universelle of 1889 and Eiffel’s tower was rising on the city horizon.
Eighteen Eighty-Eight was a momentous year in the early history of modern art. Fully recovered from the traumas of the Franco-Prussian War and the bloody massacres of the Commune, Paris was in full glory and the undisputed culture and pleasure capital of the Western world. Lily (from The Four Flowers series) 1898 Colour lithograph, 100 x 41 cm. Mucha Museum, Prague. qxp 12/16/2010 9:37 AM Page 64 Preparations were in hand for the forthcoming Exposition Universelle of 1889 and Eiffel’s tower was rising on the city horizon.