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Aubrey Beardsley played a big part within the art nouveau era; he was the leading English illustrator of the 1890s mostly known for his unusual grotesque erotica. Most of his work features nude women and huge genitals, which are slightly odd, but you can see how his style of using elegant mark making reflects that of the art nouveau movement.
Beardsley tended only to work in black and white ink this gave him a unique illustrative slightly Japanese influenced style, which enhanced his attention to detail. His work was published in many books, his most famous being Oscar Wildes play Salome, although there are seen to be 2 types of illustrations for this, one being clean and one being erotic as the publishers did not agree with the nudity included in the illustrations.
Aubrey also became editor for “The yellow book” but only stayed with them for a year and later joined their rival book “Savoy”.
Bibliography:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&um=1&q=aubrey+beardsley&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=21
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley
The best works of Aubrey Beardsley (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by Aubrey Beardsley ISBN-10: 0486262731 ISBN-13: 978-0486262734
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/57391/Aubrey-Beardsley
Leah Beecham
Leonetto Cappiello (1875–1942) was an italian designer renowned for his innovation in poster art design during the early 20th century. Cappiello worked in a way which opposed the usual painterly quality of early advertising poster design and that of his predecessors, such as Jules Cheret. Cappiello used simple, bold characters contrasted with a dark background. From this only, the audience could relate the advertisement to a particular product, without directly identifying the figure as a particular class, gender or celebrity. This skill in graphic design lead to his audience subconsciously associating an image with a product.
With no formal art education, Cappiello began with sketches and caricatures, later leading to finished designs which captured that same individuality and liveliness. A successful example of this is Cappiello’s 1921 advertisement for Cafe Martin. The designer crossed boudaries. A clear Art Nouveau influence can be seen throughout the work, along with more modernist, Art Deco inspirations.
Bibliography: Cappiello: the posters of Leonetto Cappiello, Jack Rennert 2004
http://www.cappiello.fr/anglais/biography.htm
Dani Fitzwalter
Alphonse Mucha is often referred to as the father of Art Nouveau, his 'Mucha style' has been copied over and over. The Czech studied widely at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, at Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi in Paris, 1887. He produced paintings, posters, advertisements, illustrations and even designed jewellery, carpets, wallpaper and theatre sets. Mucha famously declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, even so his rise to fame came through the commercial arts. Possibly one of first Graphic Designers?
Michael Guppy
Bibliography:
Alphonse Mucha, by Sarah Mucha, Frances Lincoln; illustrated edition (1 April 2005)
Webpage, http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/mucha.htm, Visited 28/10/2009
Webpage, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Mucha, Visited 26/10/2009
Georges Auriol (1863 – 1938) was a French Writer, Poet, Graphic Designer and Painter closely connected to the Art Nouveau movement that peaked at the start of the 20th Century. Although important in shaping the editorship of the ‘Chat Noir’ newsletter, a periodical accompanying the most famous Cabaret bar of the movement, Auriol’s single greatest achievement was the Auriol Typeface, created for the type foundry Deberny & Peignot. It’s flowing, organic forms, influenced by Japanese calligraphy, were typical of Art Nouveau, and quickly found use across Posters, Book Covers, and the Paris Metro, leading to Steven Heller’s assessment of Auriol as the, ‘quintessential Art Nouveau designer’.
References:
Linotype (2009) [online]. [Accessed on the 26th October 2009], http://www.linotype.com/654/georgesauriol.html
Heller, S. and Filli, L, Typology, Chronicle Books, 1999.
Aubrey Beardsley played a big part within the art nouveau era; he was the leading English illustrator of the 1890s mostly known for his unusual grotesque erotica. Most of his work features nude women and huge genitals, which are slightly odd, but you can see how his style of using elegant mark making reflects that of the art nouveau movement.
