History Main / ArtNouveau

* Nyssa's home planet Traken in classic [[DoctorWho]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'' not only takes place in a futuristic Art Nouveau world that mixes a little bit of Tron with a heaping helping of the works of Gustav Klimt, but the protagonist, Red, seems to be a reference to "Red Hilda", a firey-haired model that served as a muse for many of Klimt's paintings.

Whatever its name, Art Nouveau fell out of favour during or before UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. The exuberant, richly ornamented style seemed wrong somehow after so much death and destruction and the growing anxiety of the Machine Age. However, it influenced ArtDeco and other modernist movements.

* Generally speaking, the style made a bit of a comeback during the '60s psychedelic counterculture. Music/TheBeatles' Music/{{Revolver}}, for instance, is heavily inspired by the works of Aubrey Beasley, who was in turn an influence on the Art Nouveau movement to begin with. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vuqI2v2IRs This Vox video goes into more detail on the topic]].
* The front cover to Donovan's album "Sunshine Superman" is an almost note-for-note homage to the style; the squiggly, stylized fonts, the muted pastel color scheme, the abundance of decorative curves, it's all there! The only non-Nouveau element of the color is Donovan's FaceOnTheCover.

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* The Water Temple of ''VideoGame/TwilightPrincess'' draws a lot of inspiration from Catalan Modernism, especially Gaudí's famous ''trencadis'' technique. It's noticeably one of the most beautiful temples of the game.

The movement has influences from [[GreenThumb drawings of plant life]], works by Creator/AlphonseMucha, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Oriental flavours, and the Neoclassical, Romantic, Post-impressionist and Expressionist movements. The style spread throughout Europe, where [[IHaveManyNames its mode was dubbed in many languages, typically termed as "new", "modern" or "young" art]]. In Germany and Northern Europe, it was called the “Jugendstil” (youth style) or "secession". In Catalonia, it was called "Modernisme," and is associated inextricably with the weirdly-skeletal but delightful architecture of Antoni Gaudí. In Italy, it was called the ''[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers stile Liberty]]'' after the [[UsefulNotes/BritishBusinesses British department store Liberty in London]], which apparently supplied a lot of the brightly-coloured fabric Italian artists working in the style liked to use.

* [[http://prague-stay.com/img/1502/15/false/prague-industrial-palace-art-nouveau.jpg A large]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Prag_Prague_Cafe_im_Hauptbahnhof_Totale_%282005%29.JPG number]] [[http://www.prague-spot.com/blog/images/153.jpg of]] [[http://images.placesonline.com/accommodations/21/original/2/2/99782622_1.jpg buildings]] in central Prague.

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* A lot of the designs in the early series of ''Series/MisterSelfridge'' are classic Art Nouveau. This makes sense, given that Selfridge's was founded during the Edwardian era and featured cutting-edge fashions--which at the time were Art Nouveau.

* Most of the architecture in the Burton/Schumacher ''Film/{{Batman}}'' film series shows Art Nouveau influence, albeit dark and looming and often moving toward ArtDeco.

* Barcelona is one of the capitals of Art Nuveau (there called Modernisme), especially considering most of Antoni Gaudí's work is there.

* The Water Temple of ''VideoGame/TwilightPrincess'' draws a lot of inspiration from Catalan Modernism, especially Gaudi's famous ''trencadis'' technique. It's noticeably one of the most beautiful temples of the game.

* The unfinished Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain, and anything by Antoni Gaudí in general.

* ''VisualNovel/SweetEnchantments'' shows quite a bit of Art Nouveau influence in the designs of the eponymous cafe and the uniforms worn by its staff.

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!!Examples of works that include or reference Art Nouveau:

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* Creator/NaokoTakeuchi [[AuthorAppeal loves this style]] and frequently shows up [[http://mangastyle.net/book2/2-05.jpg in artworks]] for ''Manga/SailorMoon''. It appears in some parts of the manga as well, as characters or vignettes can be framed in asymmetrical swirls and flowers. This also show ups in the two animated adaptations.
** The 90's anime has a notorious nod to the style [[http://i.imgur.com/5UIJNWa.png?1 in the 4th opening]] (Second opening of the 'R' season), some official artwork also shows the girls [[http://site.harapekodoggybag.com/sailormoon_shitajiki_mars_art_nouveau.JPG framed in artistic rendition of halos]].
** In ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal,'' Nouveau’s characteristic ornamentation and pastel color spectrum influence some of the series' decorative elements, like the reverse-painted silhouettes in the EpisodeTitleCard, {{Eyecatch}}es, and ToBeContinued, as well as the rose-heavy FlowerMotifs throughout. [[http://37.media.tumblr.com/b7be0f6ff605e243373a0b85542d9e29/tumblr_n88sckveaf1qai1u2o4_500.png The To Be Continued card in particular]] both borrows visual elements from Alphonse Mucha's [[http://www.muchafoundation.org/gallery/browse-works/object/242 haloed]] [[http://www.muchafoundation.org/gallery/browse-works/object_type/posters/object/92 women]], and employs GratuitousFrench.

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* Elvish design in the movies of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' features a lot of plant-like Nouveau-ish swirls, showing the Elves to be close to nature and fond of decoration.
* Most of the architecture in the Burton/Schumacher ''{{Film/Batman}}'' film series shows Art Nouveau influence, albeit dark and looming and often moving toward ArtDeco.

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* ''{{VideoGame/Transistor}}'' not only takes place in a futuristic Art Nouveau world that mixes a little bit of Tron with a heaping helping of the works of Gustav Klimt, but the protagonist, Red, seems to be a reference to "Red Hilda", a firey-haired model that served as a muse for many of Klimt's paintings.

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