Art Nouveau

A painting, printmaking, decorative
design, and architectural style developed in England
in the 1880s. Art Nouveau, primarily an ornamental
style, was not only a protest against the sterile
Realism, but against the whole drift toward
industrialization and mechanization and the unnatural
artifacts they produced. The style is characterized by
the usage of sinuous, graceful, cursive lines,
interlaced patterns, flowers, plants, insects and other
motifs inspired by nature.