art nouveau
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Definition(s):
- (n) a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers
Usage(s):
- It was not so long agoa matter of 20 yearsthat art nouveau was considered a minor style, deservedly forgotten.
- At the turn of the century, European taste makers found themselves caught up in the snaky tendrils of a self-conscious style called art nouveau.
- Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaud.
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