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Filed under: Reasons why my love for Alphonse Mucha will never fade away
THINGS I REALLY LIKE
THINGS I REALLY LIKE
- Known as the ‘father’ of the Art Nouveau movement, distinctive for its dramatic and lavish linework, beautiful women with flowing hair and gowns, and colors.
- Mucha spent many years working on what he considered his life’s fine art masterpiece, The Slav Epic (Slovanská epopej), a series of twenty huge paintings depicting the history of the Czech and the Slavic people in general, bestowed to the city of Prague in 1928. HE EARNED A TON OF $$$$$ PEOPLE WERE MAKING IT RAIN ON HIS ART AND HE EARNED SO MANY BENJAMINS
- When his home country went to war, he created The Slav Epic pieces to raise awareness but also serious bank because they really needed the cash
- Most of his models were normal women, sometimes even simply wrapped up in curtains or bedsheets draped around them, with old jewelry. He was inspired by these everyday women and drew them as majestic and glorious goddesses with halos, exotic jewels, and flowers. Mucha saw amazing beauty in them, these ‘typical’ people were always beautiful to him. In his art, they became royal, sensuous, voluptuous women.
- He loved his family very much, and painted numerous artworks involving them. One of my favorite aspects of Mucha’s career, actually, are the portraits of his wife over time. As the both of them got older, he still painted her, and if you were to observe these paintings, you can just see the incredible amount of love he had for her.