Search results for: “mucha”
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s The Seasons: Spring
Alphonse Mucha, who is the most widely recognized figure of the style we know as Art Nouveau, at one time called “Le style Mucha”, created three series of posters in which he portrayed the fourseasons as young women surrounded by elements associated with the season. This is his interpretaion of Spring from the first of…
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Mucha’s interpretations of Winter
Three of Czech artist and designer Alphonse Mucha’s images depicting winter. Reproductions of Mucha’s work on the web are so erratic and miscolored, one of the few places I trust is the Mucha Foundation, which I’ve linked to for the first two images. I can’t find the other, except for stores selling reproductions. Happy Winter…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Autumn
Autumn, Alphonse Mucha; color lithograph, roughly 40 x 21 inches (103 x 54cm) Image sourced from here; direct link here; info here. This is one of the panels from Mucha’s first and perhaps most successful series of decorative panels, The Seasons, which he created in 1896. This and Summer are my favorites from the series.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alfons Mucha portrait drawing
Jaroslava Mucha, Alfons Mucha Link is to Wikimedia Commons. Pencil and white (presumably gouache) on toned paper, roughly 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25 cm). This lively and sensitive drawing by Czech painter, poster artist and decorative designer Alfons (Alphonse) Mucha is a portrait of his daughter, Jaroslava. The high resolution version available from…
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Mucha Documentary
A documentary on the brilliant Czech painter and graphic artist Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha is available on YouTube. The video is in six parts and is narrated in English. As always, it’s uncertain how long things like this will remain available on YouTube. [Via Gurney Journey]
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Maude Adams
Maude Adams as Joan of Arc, Alfons (Alphonse) Mucha. Hearing The Voice. Oil on canvas. Mucha designed the frame as well. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” under the image and then use zoom or download arrow.