milkywayrollercoaster:Walter Crane (1845-1915)Art Nouveau Socialist IIustrationsweb‘Digression on ar
milkywayrollercoaster:Walter Crane (1845-1915)Art Nouveau Socialist IIustrationsweb‘Digression on art nouveau. The shattering of the interior took placearound the turn of the century in art nouveau. And yet the latter appeared,according to its ideology, to bring with it the perfecting of the interior.The transfiguration of the lone soul was its apparent aim. Individualismwas its theory. With Vandervelde, there appeared the house as expressionof the personality. Ornament was to such a house what thesignature is to a painting. The real significance of art nouveau was notexpressed in this ideology. It represented the last attempt at a sortie onthe part of Art imprisoned by technical advance within her ivorytower. It mobilized all the reserve forces of interiority. They foundtheir expression in the mediumistic language of line, in the flower assymbol of the naked, vegetable Nature that confronted the technologicallyarmed environment. The new elements of construction iniron—girder-forms—obsessed art nouveau. Through ornament, it stroveto win back these forms for Art. Concrete offered it new possibilitiesfor the creation of plastic forms in architecture. Around this time the real centre of gravity of the sphere of existence was displaced to theoffice. The de-realized centre of gravity created its abode in the privatehome. Ibsen’s Masterbuilder summed up art nouveau: the attempt of theindividual, on the basis of his interiority, to vie with technical progressleads to his downfall.’Walter Benjamin - ‘Paris: Capital of the 19th Century’. -- source link
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