Differing Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau in places like Scotland, Austria, and Germany were very different from places like France, America, and Britain.  Unlike France, America, and Britain, Germany Austria and Scotland did not use many curved lines.  Everything they produced seemed to be very symmetrical in nature and the likes were very angular.  These differences defined their style.  This was also a style that started to consider type and the way it looked in relation to the illustration.  Everything produced was also elongated and distorted and stretched.  The colors used in these places were also very uniform.  they used basic colors like red and blue and let them pop against a flat, solid background.  I do think that these country’s culture had a huge factor in they way they developed art.  These country’s were expieriencing different things then last weeks and being that they were expieriencing different things, they developed their own styles that best fit what was happening to them at the time.    While I personally enjoy that the works were symmetric, I still enjoyed last weeks works more.  I like the realisticness of them more.  I am not a huge fan of the elongated figures and the bold blocky colors.  However, that being said I do still enjoy looking at these works.  I just don’t think I would go out of my way to see them because they don’t appeal to me stylistically.  Some of the key differences were also the angular lines.  That is something that I don’t mind because I am more of a fan of geometric lines but that being said I still like to see things that are realistic.

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