Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau was a movement consciously driven as an attempt at modernism, the same aesthetic qualities in everything including fashion, painting, sculpting, glass work, architecture and decoration. Artists scrapped their traditional European influences to use art and styles from Japan, Celtic and folk art as the foundation for the new movement. Most themes of Art Nouveau come from nature though many designs could be symbolic; for instance, a leaf may represent a leaf, or it may represent femininity.
For a style, there really isn't much to say because it consists of different other styles all with things in common, though one rule for Art Nouveau is because of its motifs in nature, there are no straight lines.
It is found in many stained glass windows in churches and cathedrals.
"It had been seen as a collection of different styles with little in common except, perhaps, a taste for excess and flamboyant decoration."- stazjia.squidoo.com/art-nouveau-beginners-guide
To this day still influences things such as tattoo design.
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