Typical technical terms that occur in connection with Art Nouveau works of art.

Abstraction. Abstraction emerged in the 20th century and simplified forms by detaching them from the representational.

Nude. Artistic representation of a naked human body.

Applied art. Applied art for the decoration of objects.

Art Noveau. French for "new art" around 1900, a secondary style of the Jugendstil.

Avant-garde.vanguard of a new direction in art. 

Bauhaus. College of Design in Weimar, founded in 1919, moved to Dessau in 1925, to Berlin in 1932, closed in 1933. 

Blauer Reiter. Expressionist artists' group, founded in 1911, named after a painting by Kandinsky.

Bridge. Artists' group from Dresden, founded in 1905, dissolved in 1913.

Expressionism. Expressive art. Spiritual elements are depicted in an energetic, simplified form.

Fauvism. Expressionist art movement in France. Special features are bright colours and simplified composition. 

Functionalism. Direction of architecture that focuses on practicality.

Historicism. Imitation of historical styles of the 19th century; contrast to modern art.

Impressionism. Art style in which the impression of the moment is depicted.

Art Nouveau. Art movement around 1900 in which ornamental, moving forms were used. The name comes from the Munich magazine "Jugend".

Classicism. Art movement in which classical elements were taken up and imitated.

Constructivism. Art movement founded in 1915 in which only geometric forms are combined.

Cubism. Art style in the early 20th century with its own laws and emphasis on the cubic.

Liberty. Department stores' in London where Art Noveau items were sold around 1900, which is where they got their name from.

Secession style. Art movement in Vienna between 1898 and 1918.

Stijl. Dutch artist group with consistent constructivism, founded in 1917.

Still life. Type of pictures in which immobile objects are depicted in artistic form.

Symbolism. Style with intellectual significance, between 1880 and 1900.