Art Panel Alphonse Mucha Summer

◆Alfon Mucha
A Czech-born painter who represents Art Nouveau
◆This is a "mixed media" piece in which artisans have carefully applied gold and silver leaf.

External dimensions: 305x445x25mm
Weight: Approx. 1kg

Alphonse Mucha Born in 1860 (1860-1939) A Czech-born painter who was active in France and elsewhere. While working at a stage set studio in Vienna, he attended a night school for drawing, then the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, and at the age of 28, the Académie Julian in Paris. In Paris, he made a living as a designer and illustrator. His first step to fame was working on the poster for "Gismonda," featuring Sarah Bernhardt, a leading Belle Époque actress. He was a leading Art Nouveau painter and a favorite of his time. His designs, characterized by graceful and glamorous women, lush hair blowing in the wind, flowing costumes, and decorative motifs, brightened the end of the century and were considered a model for artists of the time. Mucha's works are characterized by a style that uses female figures to express various concepts such as stars, jewels, and flowers (plants), and by the extensive use of elegant curves in his designs. His representative works of illustration and design include Gismonda, The Zodiac, Reverie, and The Four Arts. With the idea of ​​painting the great epic poem of the Slavic people spanning 1,000 years, Mucha traveled to America to raise funds. After returning to Czechoslovakia, he spent time creating the large oil painting series The Slav Epic, which consisted of more than 20 paintings, which he began working on in 1912 and completed in 1926. In 1928, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's independence, Mucha donated the completed series to the mayor of Prague. With the rise of fascism in the late 1930s, Mucha's works and Slavic nationalism came to be criticized as reactionary. When German troops entered Czechoslovakia in 1939, Mucha was arrested by the Gestapo. During his interrogation, Mucha contracted pneumonia. Although he was eventually released from the Gestapo, the elderly Mucha was quite frail and died of a lung infection on July 14, 1939 in Prague. He was buried in the Vysehrad Cemetery. Mucha was also called the "Magician of Lines" because of his graceful curves. His thick contours, elegant depictions, and delicate decorativeness were loved in Japan and became a model for design and illustration. Mucha's influence can be seen in the works of Takeji Fujishima, who drew the covers of Yosano Akiko's "Midaregami" and "Myojo." He was a great inspiration to illustrators and manga artists such as Amano Yoshitaka, Yamagishi Ryoko, and Matsunae Akemi, who worked on the Final Fantasy game series. His decorative style continues to be loved today as the "Musha style." The "Musha" and "Klimt" posters we handle are "mixed media" works that reproduce the colors and textures of the original paintings using high-quality silk screen printing, and are also carefully finished with gold and silver foil by artisans. The high quality of his work has been recognized worldwide, and is handled by world-famous museums and galleries such as the Metropolitan, MoMA, the Hermitage, and the Kyoto Museum of Art. Accessories: String

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