I am an artist at heart and an accountant by career. The excellent designers of art nouveau in England embody the graphic artist Aubrey Beardsley, A. H. Mackmurdo, Charles Ricketts, Walter Crane, and the Scottish architect Charles R. Mackintosh; in Belgium the architects Henry Van de Velde and Victor Horta; in France the architect and designer of the Paris métro entrances, Hector Guimard, and the jewelry designer René Lalique; in Austria the painter Gustav Klimt; in Spain the architect Antonio Gaudí; in Germany the illustrator Otto Eckmann and the architect Peter Behrens; in Italy the originator of the ornamental Floreale type, Giuseppe Sommaruga; and in the United States Louis Sullivan, whose architecture was dressed with art nouveau detail, and the designer of stylish glassware Louis C. Tiffany.
For a technology or more, the American public has been thoroughly alienated from the life of the positive arts whereas, paradoxically, persevering with to get pleasure from museums for the sake of sensation and spectacle, a lot as it enjoyed circuses a century … Read More