Furthermore, Art Nouveau monuments are now recognised by UNESCO with their World Heritage List as significant contributions to cultural heritage. Art Nouveau was also a style of distinct individuals such as Gustav Klimt, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Alphonse Mucha, RenГ© Lalique, Antoni GaudГ and Louis Comfort Tiffany, each of whom interpreted it in their own manner.ДЄlthough Art Nouveau was replaced by 20th-century modernist styles, it is considered now as an important transition between the historicism of Neoclassicism and modernism.

Magazines like Jugend helped publicise the style in Germany, especially as a graphic artform, while the Vienna Secessionists influenced art and architecture throughout Austria-Hungary. Victor Horta had a decisive effect on architecture in Belgium. In France, Hector Guimard's Paris metro entrances were of art nouveau style and Emile GallГ© practised the style in Nancy. Hence, it is known in various guises with frequent localised tendencies.

Initially named Style Mucha, (Mucha Style), his style soon became known as Art Nouveau.ДЄrt Nouveau was most popular in Europe, but its influence was global. It popularised the new artistic style and its creator to the citizens of Paris. The style was influenced strongly by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, when Mucha produced a lithographed poster, which appeared on 1 January 1895 in the streets of Paris as an advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou, featuring Sarah Bernhardt. It is also considered a philosophy of design of furniture, which was designed according to the whole building and made part of ordinary life. Architects tried to harmonize with the natural environment. A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants but also in curved lines. Known as Jugendstil, pronounced in Germany, German for 'youth style' or 'the style of youth', named after the magazine Jugend, which promoted it, as Modern (РњРѕРґРµСЂРЅ) in Russia, perhaps named after Parisian gallery 'La Maison Moderne', as Secession in Austria-Hungary and its successor states after the Viennese group of artists, and, in Italy, as Stile Liberty from the department store in London, Liberty & Co., which popularised the style. It is known also as Modernisme in Catalonia ( Spain), with its most notable contributions by the architect Antoni GaudГ. The name 'Art Nouveau' is French for 'new art'.

Gismonda, 1894 by Alphonse Mucha, a leading artist of the Art Nouveau movementДЄrt Nouveau ( French pronunciation:В вЂ‹, Anglicised to / Л€ Й‘Лђ r t n uЛђ Л€ v oКЉ /) is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art-especially the decorative arts-that were most popular during 1890вЂ“1910.

Vienna secession and jugendstil group