Alphonse Mucha’s body of work is full of contradictions. He is most often identified with late 19th-century Paris, but was in fact Moravian (Czech). His vision for the purpose of art was for the ...
Organic, sinuous lines, with vines snaking around stylized letters, ethereal women with flowing tresses, and botanical borders characterize the style of Art Nouveau, the enduringly popular movement ...
Alphonse Mucha’s grandson, JOHN MUCHA who was in Malta for the vernissage of the “In quest of beauty: Alphonse Mucha 1860-1939” exhibition, talks to Marie Benoît about his famous grandfather, the ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) --He was one of the most celebrated artists in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. WDRB's Keith Kaiser explores the works of Alphonse Mucha at the Speed Art Museum. The Speed ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alphonse Mucha won overnight fame in Belle Époque Paris on New Year’s Day 1895, when one of his sinuous, pastel ...
It was the eve of Christmas in 1894 when Alphonse Mucha’s career really took off. Sarah Bernhardt, a famed French theater actress at the time, was in dire need of an artwork to promote her new ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke is preparing to open a new exhibition featuring the work of influential artist Alphonse Mucha. Considered the father of Art Nouveau, Mucha ...
A major legal battle looms over Alphonse Mucha’s monumental Slav Epic. The gigantic canvas cycle, which took the Czech-born Art Nouveau pioneer 18 years to complete, is due to go on a controversial ...
While the Mucha exhibition at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta continues to attract visitors Marie Benoît asked a handful of art lovers to express their views about it Fr Marius Zerafa ...