Post 8 _ Art History _ Olga Doutkevitch
The Black Cat, 1894-1895. Illustrations of short stories by
Edgar Allan Poe
Illustration no. 12 of Das Thier in der
decorativen Kunst by Anton Seder
I think that I always liked Art Nouveau movement.
Aubrey Beardsley is one of the artists I was thinking about
a lot. I never straightforward copied his works, but looked at his works, thinking
about them.
Beardsley himself was greatly influenced by the Renaissance
and Medieval art, and The Illustrations and text in the illuminated manuscripts
were organized, with their Decorative borders Around the main images. On this
illustration the border also includes some written information -- for example,
the name of an episode that this image is illustrating.
There is a difference from the look of Medieval and
Renaissance art in these illustrations: everything is more forceful. It made me
think that Art Nouveau happened in the Industrial Age, when people suddenly
were confronted by heavy machines everywhere -- Machinery in the factories, trains,
steam engines, locomotives, railroads – all of it huge and heavy.
Perhaps I feel this kind of thing in my life too. The huge weaponry
and forces around us are getting just more powerful – with less and less
structures to counterforce it. There is less and less large and strong
families, and old established strong communities are destroyed at any moment. (No
wonder there is so much talking about “live in this moment”. Of course, you
never know about next moment, and what will happen then.
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