George Barbier — Statement Duo | Art Nouveau Fashion Illustration Prints

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George Barbier — Statement Duo | Art Nouveau Fashion Illustration PrintsGeorge Barbier (18821932) was the supreme illustrator of the French Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods the artist whose fashion plates for Journal des Dames et des Modes, Gazette du Bon Ton, and the Ballets Russes programmes defined the visual elegance of the 1910s and 1920s. Combining Japanese compositional influence, Persian miniature colour, and a uniquely French sense of chic, his illustrations remain the definitive images of early 20th century

His Masnavi and Divan-e Shams explore the soul's longing for the divine through metaphors of love

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are treasured in Japanese temple collections and command the highest respect in the history of Sino-Japanese artistic exchange

women — have an intimacy and psychological penetration that distinguishes them from the more theatrical strand of Orientalism

and landscapes with an assertive line and a vigorous handling of mass that places him in the tradition of the great Dutch draughtsmen

he deliberately turned away from European conventions to draw on the folk traditions of Bengal — particularly the Kalighat pat scroll paintings — developing a bold

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and seasonal landscape combined ink painting economy with decorative sensitivity

and the Ballets Russes programmes defined the visual elegance of the 1910s and 1920s

is one of the great piano manufacturers in history — the instrument of Liszt

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