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Clintons Art Nouveau cards

Lady in blue. Clintons Art Nouveau cards

Clintons Art Nouveau cards
You probably saw lovely “Clintons” birthday Deco cards featuring a beautiful lady in 1930’s dress on them. But in fact, they are Art Nouveau cards, the style that appeared later.
The style of Art Deco is characterized by rich colors, bold geometric shapes. Anyway, Clintons Art Nouveau cards are gorgeous – sparkling lady wearing a black or pink dress and fancy head dress embellished with glitter and silver foil text. In addition, the style was the first major artistic stylistic movement in which mass-produced graphics played a key role. And a key influence belongs to the Paris-based Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, who, by the way, created a lithographed poster, featuring Sarah Bernhardt.

Clintons Art Nouveau cards

Beautiful ladies

Meanwhile, the poster appeared on 1 January 1895 in the streets of Paris as an advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou. This Mucha Style soon became known as Art Nouveau in France. Then, the contribution to Art Nouveau was made by artists from around the world – Gustav Klimt, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Jan Toorop, René Lalique, Antoni Gaudí and Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Clintons Art Nouveau cards

Birthday wishes

Two-dimensional Art Nouveau pieces were painted, drawn, and printed in popular forms such as advertisements, posters, cards, labels, and magazines. Besides, some line and curve patterns became graphic cliches that have been still found in works of artists from many parts of the world.

Clintons Art Nouveau cards

Clintons Art Nouveau cards

Woman with umbrella

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Gorgeous lady

Clintons Art Nouveau cards

Great Gatsby style ladies

Clintons Art Nouveau cards

Glamorous ladies in Clintons birthday card

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Art Nouveau birthday card

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Birthday card

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Lady birthday card

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Art Nouveau card

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Lady birthday card

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Clinton’s birthday card

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Art Nouveau card

Clintons Art Nouveau Lady birthday card

Lady birthday card

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