Conférence : La Belle Époque et l'Art Nouveau

By Géraldine Guérin, tour guide and lecturer with a degree in Art History. With its arabesques and scrolls, Art Nouveau, dubbed the "noodle style" by its detractors, emerged in the midst of industrial modernity to revalue artisanal work in the face of the machine. It is expressed through a floral and colorful style, lines that intertwine and unravel, inspired by nature. Going against the grain of industrial precepts of rationalization and austerity, Art Nouveau, with its soft and feminine forms, is an artistic manifestation of a style unprecedented in the history of Western culture—a truly new art!

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