Timeless appeal: a postcard gallery of the works of Alphonse Mucha.
As one of the foremost artists of the Art Nouveau movement, Alphonse Mucha worked in a diverse array of genres from painting to illustration, posters, and product design, making him a forerunner of the multidisciplinary artist of today. This postcard book reproduces 32 selected masterpieces from the collection of the Sakai Alphonse Mucha Museum. In the words of the preface by art historian Furutani Yoshiyuki, in his posters “Mucha started with representations of the female figure rendered through the expertise he had cultivated as a painter and embellished them with geometrical motifs and stylized blossoms, tresses, and costumes. This fusion of painting with decorative art is the hallmark of his oeuvre. Today, the fusion of fine arts such as painting and applied arts such as design is practiced as a matter of course, and it is no doubt because Mucha was a pioneer in this respect that he exerts such an enduring pull over viewers in their youth and beyond.”
As one of the foremost artists of the Art Nouveau movement, Alphonse Mucha worked in a diverse array of genres from painting to illustration, posters, and product design, making him a forerunner of the multidisciplinary artist of today. This postcard book reproduces 32 selected masterpieces from the collection of the Sakai Alphonse Mucha Museum. In the words of the preface by art historian Furutani Yoshiyuki, in his posters “Mucha started with representations of the female figure rendered through the expertise he had cultivated as a painter and embellished them with geometrical motifs and stylized blossoms, tresses, and costumes. This fusion of painting with decorative art is the hallmark of his oeuvre. Today, the fusion of fine arts such as painting and applied arts such as design is practiced as a matter of course, and it is no doubt because Mucha was a pioneer in this respect that he exerts such an enduring pull over viewers in their youth and beyond.”