Alphonse Mucha was an artist known for helping develop the Art Nouveau style through his paintings, posters, illustrations, and designs. Mucha frequently featured beautiful young women surrounded by flowers in flowing robes, using pale pastel colors. His work at the 1900 Paris World's Fair helped spread the Mucha style, which he felt brought more aesthetic values to arts and crafts.
Alphonse Mucha was an artist known for helping develop the Art Nouveau style through his paintings, posters, illustrations, and designs. Mucha frequently featured beautiful young women surrounded by flowers in flowing robes, using pale pastel colors. His work at the 1900 Paris World's Fair helped spread the Mucha style, which he felt brought more aesthetic values to arts and crafts.
Alphonse Mucha was an artist known for helping develop the Art Nouveau style through his paintings, posters, illustrations, and designs. Mucha frequently featured beautiful young women surrounded by flowers in flowing robes, using pale pastel colors. His work at the 1900 Paris World's Fair helped spread the Mucha style, which he felt brought more aesthetic values to arts and crafts.
advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewelry, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what was initially called the Mucha Style, but became known as Art Nouveau (French for 'new art'). Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful healthy young women in flowing vaguely Neoclassical looking robes, often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed haloes behind the women's heads. In contrast with contemporary poster makers he used paler pastel colors. The 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris spread the "Mucha style" internationally, of which Mucha said "I think [the Exposition Universelle] made some contribution toward bringing aesthetic values into arts and crafts."