'La Belle Jardinière – Avril'
Eugène Grasset, 1896 #art #ArtNouveau #calendar

This is a beautif decorative Art Nouveau metal plaque of Neptune in a doorway of the Miller and Lang building on Darnley Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.

Love this beautiful Art Nouveau style tenement tile pattern, featuring Scottish Bluebells. It's from a tenement close in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.

"Life is a Struggle (Golden Rider)," Gustav Klimt, 1903.

I won't go on about Klimt, you've heard it before. But this is an interesting canvas; it mixes the "modern" style of Art Nouveau with material that echoes the Pre-Raphaelites and medieval art.

Klimt painted this during a bitter time of life; three paintings he'd been commissioned for by the University of Vienna had been rejected for being "pornographic." Evidently, this was painted to hearten himself as he continued on his artistic journey, despite the critics and naysayers, symbolized by the snake.

There's a mosaic-like quality to this, as there is to some of Klimt's work. And the overall effect is almost jewel-like.

Courage, friends!

From the Menard Art Museum, Komaki, Japan.

Art Nouveau leaded glass design in a Brussels, Belgian house from the realy 1920's
#architecture, #artnouveau, #brusselsbelgium,
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