Art Nouveau Canvas Prints
Art Nouveau lets nature redesign almost everything, apparently after giving vines, lilies and dragonflies a ruler and then politely taking it away. Emerging around the turn of the twentieth century, the movement favours flowing lines, decorative rhythm, elegant figures and ornaments that seem determined to keep growing beyond their borders. In canvas prints, its theatrical curves and botanical patterns retain the strange balance between refinement and exuberance: part garden, part architecture, part very sophisticated daydream. Even the lettering often joins the choreography, bending as if straight lines were a regrettable administrative error.
