![]() ![]() ![]() all seemingly removed from the pressures of everyday life.”6 In short, Sezessionstil, like Art Nouveau in general, “. a highly feminine flavor,”5 and which depicted figures who were “. a vehicle for expression for workers in the field of decorative arts.”4 It was an art which displayed “. While a case can be made for an attitude within such styles as Symbolism and Decadence toward a duty of the artist to highlight socio-political dissatisfactions, Art Nouveau was “. Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession in particular (in which “Art Nouveau reached its most bizarre extremes.”3) were marked by an internationalist attitude, but were perhaps also a manifestation of a desire to ignore the ominous rumblings which exploded at the declaration of war on Serbia by Austria on 28 July 1914. The Secession Style was a fluid and highly decorative art form, and can be more likened to the Rococo of the eighteenth century than to the social-commentary art forms which were its own contemporaries. Monopoly of the existing art establishment (the Künstlerhaus) than in unseating the dynastic governments which still held sway in Europe in the early twentieth century. What revolutionary zeal they evinced was directed more at breaking the may command an artist‟s attention,”2 their target audience tended more toward the affluent middle class, rather than the common man. worthy of an architect‟s time, and also that a simple object such as a chair or vase. Also, while Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession embraced architecture and declared that “. Figures in Art Nouveau works were heavily idealized and romanticized. Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession did not focus on petit genre subjects as had Realism and Impressionism before them. ![]() This essay will seek to examine the broad-stroke causes and effects which led up to the formation of the Vienna Secession on 27 March 18971 its place in the wider movement of Art Nouveau the contributions of some of the Secession‟s most influential founders and members and its ultimate legacy to the world of art, craft, and design. In the same way, the causes of a given historical event can become uncountable if the granularity of causes and effects is examined too minutely. In topology, the answer to the question of the true length of a coastline is, “It depends on how small a ruler you use to measure it.” An infinitesimally small measuring unit would yield an infinitely long measurement. Not only is it practically impossible to identify a causa causans, but one may not actually exist. They marked the end of sequences of events, actions, and reactions-as well as to other attempts to effect change- influenced and motivated by stimuli of a highly eclectic nature. But, in a very real sense, these singular events, while marking a beginning for what followed upon them, were also culminations. To be sure, some specific events can be dated with precision: the Sack of Rome in 387 BCE the signing of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776 Neil Armstrong‟s first footstep on the Moon at 2:56 GMT on 21 July 1969. History being a continuum, it is often difficult to pinpoint beginnings. Art Nouveau And the Vienna Secession: To The Time Its Art
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