Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Art Nouveau sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Art Nouveau (c. 1890 – 1910), it traces three movements that shaped it, all well-established links: the Arts and Crafts movement, Japonisme and Symbolism; it runs alongside three parallel movements, all well-established links: Berlin Secession, Fin de siècle and Vienna Secession; it fans out to four movements it went on to influence, all well-established links: Art Deco, Jugendstil, Psychedelic art and Young Poland.
Art Nouveau (/ˌɑːr(t) nuːˈvoʊ/ AR(T) noo-VOH; French: [aʁ nuvo] ⓘ; lit. 'New Art'), Jugendstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. Other characteristics of Art Nouveau were a sense of dynamism and movement, often given by asymmetry or whiplash lines, and the use of modern materials, particularly iron, glass, ceramics and later concrete, to create unusual forms and larger open spaces. It was popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period, and was a reaction against the academicism, eclecticism and historicism of 19th-century architecture and decorative art. Read more ↗