Vienna Secession
ウィーン分離派 / 1897–1910s / Style / Fin de Siècle Art
Tightens organic ornament with geometry and flat composition, erasing the border between art and design.
Square skeletons / Repeating pattern / Gold and black / Flattened figures and plants
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Intelligent ornament for cultural venues and premium goods · Showing the tension between classical and modern
- Type
- Tall serifs or geometric hand-lettering
- Composition
- Build on the square and a central axis; gather imagery at the top
- Material
- Off-white, black, gold; control fine repetition with large margins
- Caution
- Don't lump it with Art Nouveau's plant curves. Keep the straight line, the grid, the flatness.
- Further study
- Alfred Roller / Koloman Moser / Vienna Secession