Art Nouveau (literally 'new art')is a style of art, applied art, decoration, and architecture. It reached it's heyday in the latter Victorian era (1890 - 1910) and is still admired today. The movement was strongly influenced by Alphonse Mucha, a Czech artist who later claimed he did not think his own style was "particularly 'art nouveau'". Klimt, Gaudi and Mackintosh are also associated, along with Émile Gallé. Art nouveau is not a modernist style, preferring the flowery ornamentation of the era to which it belonged; and did not achieve much popularity in the later 20th century, in the wake of minimalism and realism. Art Nouveau is also quite an organic form and often incorporates plant and earth forms, as well as womankind and, rarely, men.
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