Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha cable Cigarettes During the 19th century, many changes were taking taper in modern font European society, which was noticeable through art at that time. A different kind of mood that was moving away from the handed-down, stock art that were taught at art academies and was firmly influenced by the inventions and Crafts doing was developed. This modern style of art was known as Art Nouveau. Alphonse Mucha was an key get word and had a strong influence in this new style.Alphonse Mucha had a style that garnered a constituent of public attention in the States and Europe and it in addition influenced many artists to mimic what many called the Mucha style. Muchas Job Cigarettes menu illustrates the standard of the Art Nouveau style and notes some of the changes taking bewilder in modern society. Alphonse Muchas Job Cigarettes was not the first scorecard that brought him fame and put him in the eye of the public however, it is a add-in that could be said was h is best piece. It one of several commercial art ads he did for the rolling paper company known as Job.It features a egg-producing(prenominal) holding a cigarette in one hand. The feminine has a faint smile with her eyes closed and her head raised a bit high to indicate she is really enjoying her cigarette and perhaps getting some sort of physical or emotional satisfaction from her smoke. She seems to go beyond the modelling giving this piece a sense of wisdom perspective. It seems to say that she cannot be contained and that she is free to do as she pleases and enjoy her smoke. She has truly long and curly stylized hair that was traditionally utilise by Alphonse Mucha known as macaroni or vermicelli.The hair serves as an essential adorning, decorative component of the mailing, which also serves to display the sensuousness of the womanhood and gives it a more esthetically pleasant vista. The smoke from the cigarette flows upwards in a left-hand(a) and right manner which g uides the eye from the cigarette to the head of the female and thence finally towards the Job logo. The poster seems to have a decorative border that was most likely influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. The colors are nuts and pastel-like which gives a feeling of serenity and peace.Mucha technique in his Job Cigarettes poster and his treatment of the three main elements, flowing lines, heavy(p) curves, and extreme outlet matter, which traditionally found in Art Nouveau depicts the standard in this style of art. There are no hard-edged lines found in the main see of the poster. The only hard-edged line work is found in the ornamented border. Mucha also used heavy and light strokes, which was most likely influenced by Japanese woodcuts/art, end-to-end the female figure and the smoke. He seems to create a heavier stroke on he distant lines, which creates a sort of silhouette giving it a dynamic feel.The heavy curves are easily identifiable in the womans hair adorning the female figure. They are very long and amplify in form, which was traditional of Mucha and the Art Nouveau style. The hair on the female has an organic feel that seems to look like vines or something of that sort. The decorative border seems to assign the whole piece and makes it seem like the woman is leaning outside of a window and into nature to freely enjoy her smoke. As a teenager, Mucha had applied to the Prague Academy of Fine Arts art but was rejected because he did not have the skill to be a received artist.His rejection was even followed up with a note saying that he should picture a better profession where he would be more useful. peradventure Mucha was not the only artist who was rejected in such a manner, which is why many artists probably felt the need to rebel against the traditional style of the Academy, and decided to make art in their own style. They cute to try something new and move with the rapid changes taking place at that time. One example of change in m odern society was the heavy use of posters in commercial art.Mucha decided to use a lithographic poster for his Jobs Cigarettes ad and it made such a great mold on the Job Company that they actually hire him to create spare advertisement posters for them. An opposite change with Art Nouveau was the constant presence of female figures in the artwork. Female illustrations played an important factor in advertisements. nontextual matter was sexually charged to remove market commodities. Although Muchas Job Cigarettes poster is not overly sexual, he does use a female figure that seems to be getting some sort of pleasure from the product to sell to consumers.Muchas illustration perhaps seems to show the rise of womens loving position. Mucha shows a female doing what was traditionally a male activity, smoking. As a result of mass production from the Industrial Revolution, there were a lot of mechanical looking objects in society. These massproduced items just made the world look more ugly, generic, and bland. Mucha gathered much influence from the organic shapes and curves from nature and heavily adorns his illustration to bring more beauty, life, and freedom to society.Alphonse Muchas Job Cigarettes poster had a freeing, unique style that was much different than the traditional standards taught at art academies. Muchas technique was so evident and admired that the Art Nouveau style was often referred to as the Mucha style and highly imitated by other artists. Through his technique, style and subject matter, he comments on the changes occurring in modern society and in art, and it has influenced not only artists from his time but also many other artists today.