Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #742113 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-01
• Released on: 2008-08-01
• Original language: Multilingual
• Binding: Calendar
• 12 pages

Customer Reviews

12 languorous Art Nouveau ladies by Alphonse Mucha
My niece, a freshman art major is going through an Art Nouveau phase and asked for an Alphonse Mucha poster for Christmas. I thought she might like this calendar even better, as it has 12 of Mucha's languishing portraits of ladies, most of them advertising such items as Sarah Bernhardt plays, champagne, and beer.

Each month displays a separate 11.6" x 11.6" color picture above a calendar grid. Opened up on a wall, the calendar is roughly 1 foot wide and 2 feet long.

Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic, but spent his creative years in Paris just as Art Nouveau was embracing Europe's new industrial aesthetic. It featured naturalistic but stylized forms, often combined with more geometric shapes as in the paintings of Alphonse Mucha or Gustav Klimt. The movement also produced useful or wearable art as evidenced by Lalique jewelry or Tiffany lamps. Mucha himself designed advertising posters and stage sets, so I'm sure he would approve of this useful and beautiful presentation of his art.

ok
Product came very late and also had a tear in the corner of all the calendar pages.

Worth the expense and difficulty to find this
Not art quality prints or anything, But good quality posters with a generious buffer between the picture and the calander at the bottom. The only down side is that its a bit hard to figure out what day of the week a date is i.e its not formatted like most calendars. But if you are buying this you probably aren't buying it to write your appointments on anyway. Some of the colors are a bit duller that I would prefer, but I haven't seen art quality copies of originals to know which version brighter or duller more earthtone tinted are truer to the artists concept.