Mucha Foundation The official site of the Mucha Foundation A comprehensive resource for information on Alphonse Mucha (or Alfons Mucha) with details on his life, the Mucha Trust Collection, news, exhibitions, events and publications
The Arts (series) - Browse Works - Gallery - Mucha Foundation Instead he emphasised the creative inspiration of natural beauty by giving each of the arts a circular backdrop featuring a motif from nature indicating a particular time of day: for Dance falling leaves blown by a morning breeze; for Painting a red flower encircled by rainbows in fresh daylight; for Poetry the evening star shining in the sky
The Arts (series) - - Themes - Gallery - Mucha Foundation Instead he emphasised the creative inspiration of natural beauty by giving each of the arts a circular backdrop featuring a motif from nature indicating a particular time of day: for Dance falling leaves blown by a morning breeze; for Painting a red flower encircled by rainbows in fresh daylight; for Poetry the evening star shining in the sky
Browse Works - Gallery - Mucha Foundation The official site of the Mucha Foundation A comprehensive resource for information on Alphonse Mucha (or Alfons Mucha) with details on his life, the Mucha Trust Collection, news, exhibitions, events and publications
Paintings - Browse Works - Gallery - Mucha Foundation Although Mucha is known principally as a graphic artist, his paintings form an important part of his art Furnished with academic training in Munich and Paris, he was a skilled painter as exemplified by his oil portraits and the historical illustrations produced during the 1880s and 1890s At the Paris Exhibition of 1900 Mucha worked on a complex decorative scheme for the Bosnia and
The Times of the Day (series) - Art Posters - Mucha Foundation In gaining wider public recognition as the ‘Master of the Art Nouveau poster’, Mucha’s success in a new genre – decorative panels (‘ panneaux décoratifs ’) – played a significant part Decorative panels were posters without text, a prototype of today’s art posters, designed purely for artistic appreciation or decorating interior walls It was the printer Champenois who
Byzantine Heads (pair) - Browse Works - Gallery - Mucha Foundation Mucha regarded Byzantine civilization as the spiritual home of Slavic culture In his style he incorporated a variety of decorative motifs inspired by Byzantine art, such as mosaic works, icons, sumptuous costumes and accessories This pair of decorative panels was so popular that it was reproduced in a number of different formats, including panels with variations in the frame decoration and
Byzantine Heads: Brunette - Art Posters - Mucha Foundation Mucha was established as a leading poster artist between 1895 and 1900 During this period, six posters by Mucha appeared in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche, Jules Chéret’s monthly publication featuring the best posters of the time selected by him Also from that time, Mucha’s distinctive style was called ‘le style Mucha’, becoming synonymous with the current ‘Art Nouveau’ style In
The Arts (series) - Art Posters - Themes - Gallery - Mucha Foundation Instead he emphasised the creative inspiration of natural beauty by giving each of the arts a circular backdrop featuring a motif from nature indicating a particular time of day: for Dance falling leaves blown by a morning breeze; for Painting a red flower encircled by rainbows in fresh daylight; for Poetry the evening star shining in the sky
Mucha at a glance - Gallery - Mucha Foundation The official site of the Mucha Foundation A comprehensive resource for information on Alphonse Mucha (or Alfons Mucha) with details on his life, the Mucha Trust Collection, news, exhibitions, events and publications