Art Nouveau-Hector Guimard

Art, History and Society

Art Nouveau- Introduction

This movement began in Europe in the 19th-20th

century. The main focus of this movement was to

modernize design.

The movement was committed to abolishing the

traditional hierarchy of the arts, which viewed so-

called liberal arts, such as painting and sculpture, as

superior to craft-based decorative arts.

Artists drew inspiration from both organic and

geometric forms, evolving elegant designs that

united flowing, natural forms with more angular

contours.

Art Nouveau- key ideas

• The practitioners of Art Nouveau sought

to revive good workmanship, raise the

status of craft, and produce genuinely

modern design.

• Art Nouveau artists sought to

overturn the widespread belief that

media such as painting and sculpture

were superior to crafts such as furniture

design and silver- smithing.

• they evolved a belief that the function of

an object should dictate its form.

Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard was an architect, who is now the best-known

representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and

early twentieth centuries.

Guimard's critical reputation has risen since the 1960s, as many art

historians have praised his architectural and decorative work, the best of it

done during a relatively brief fifteen years of prolific creative activity.

• 1885 Guimard begins studying at the École Nationale et Speciale des

Beaux-Arts in Paris

• 1891 Guimard becomes an Assistant professor in descriptive geometry,

shadow, and perspective drawings

• 1892 Professor the following year in of the girls' section

Hector Guimard- Castel Béranger(1898)

Hector Guimard- Coilliot house(1898)

Hector Guimard- Humbert-de-Romans(1901)

Hector Guimard- Paris Metro (1907)

Hector Guimard- Hotel Guimard (1909)