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Alphonse Mucha - part 6
Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860 – 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist born in 1860 born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia. He is best known for his luxurious poster and product designs, which...
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Alphonse Mucha - part 7
Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860 – 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist born in 1860 born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia. He is best known for his luxurious poster and product designs, which...
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Alphonse Mucha - part 8
Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860 – 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist born in 1860 born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia. He is best known for his luxurious poster and product designs, which...
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Alphonse Mucha - part 9
Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860 – 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist born in 1860 born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia. He is best known for his luxurious poster and product designs, which...
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Alphonse Mucha - part 10
Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860 – 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist born in 1860 born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia. He is best known for his luxurious poster and product designs, which...
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Alphonse Mucha - part 11
Self-Portrait 1907 oil on canvas 28.5 x 44 cm © Alphonse Mucha Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, ParisAlphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860 – 1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist...
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Psychedelic Graphics of the 1960s – part 1
Following on from the posts on Alphonse Mucha, it seems like an appropriate time to look at these designs that often employed the Art Nouveau style, and borrowed from Mucha in particular. Leading...
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Caspar David Friedrich – part 1
c1810-20 Caspar David Friedrich by Gerhard von Kügelgen
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Caspar David Friedrich – part 2
Georg Friedrich Kersting "Caspar David Friedrich in seinem Atelier" 1819 oil on canvas 51 x 40 cmWikipedia:Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter,...
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Festival of Britain - part 2
For background information on the Festival of Britain (1951) see part 1 of this post. Part 2 takes a look at the unusual and innovative approach the Festival designers took with regard to contemporary...
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema – part 3
Self-Portrait 1896 oil on canvas 52.8 x 65.7 cmBorn in Dronrij, Holland, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium. He settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. He...
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Wiener Werkstätte postcards – part 2
This is part 2 of a 2-part post on Wiener Werkstätte postcards. For background information and for earlier postcards in the sequence, see part 1 also.Postkarte no. 399 Mela KoehlerPostkarte no. 401...
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Film Posters 1913 - 1929
I have featured posters on here from time to time, but having a digital archive of over 2000 vintage and modern posters all types, I thought I'd start employing some more on this blog, starting with a...
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