【桐音别馆】新艺术运动与其辩证意象Started in the mid 19th century, Art nouveau is a movement that seeks to act as counteract to rise of the modernity due to the industrial revolution. This movement seeks to eradicate the rift between the high and the low art. Essentially, the simulacrum of the ‘Modern’ art, which exists as a monad with a mere surface without any depth has to be obliterated. In another word, the ‘Modern’ means of producing commodities and arts, which is through material reification has to be forgo; in its place is the imagined ‘direct representational’ methods, as shown by the heavy use of Nature in Art Nouveau scheme. The movement seeks to unify all forms of arts, centering it around man and his life; therefore many of the work produced takes the form of architectural objects or. The Paris Métro stood as the piéce de résistance of the Art Nouveau movement. Designed by Hector Guimard, the entrance to the Paris Metro stations came to represent the movement itself. Influenced strongly b (more...)