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name | Alphonse Mucha |
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birth name | Alfons Maria Mucha |
birth date | July 24, 1860 |
birth place | Ivančice, Moravia, Austrian Empire (present Czech Republic) |
death date | July 14, 1939 |
death place | Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |
nationality | Czech |
field | Painting, Illustration, Decorative art |
training | Munich Academy of Fine ArtsAcadémie JulianAcadémie Colarossi |
movement | Art Nouveau |
works | ''The Slav Epic'' (''Slovanská epopej'') |
patrons | Count Karl Khuen of Mikulov |
influenced by | Neoclassicism |
influenced | Paul HarveyKevin Wasden |
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Mucha moved to Paris in 1887, and continued his studies at Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi. In addition to his studies, he worked at producing magazine and advertising illustrations. About Christmas 1894, Mucha happened to go into a print shop where there was a sudden and unexpected need for a new advertising poster for a play featuring Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in Paris, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on the Boulevard Saint-Martin. Mucha volunteered to produce a lithographed poster within two weeks, and on 1 January 1895, the advertisement for the play ''Gismonda'' by Victorien Sardou was posted in the city, where it attracted much attention. Bernhardt was so satisfied with the success of this first poster that she began a six-year contract with Mucha.
Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewelry, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what was termed initially the ''Mucha Style'' but became known as ''Art Nouveau'' (French for 'new art'). Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful young women in flowing, vaguely Neoclassical-looking robes, often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed halos behind their heads. In contrast with contemporary poster makers he used pale pastel colors. The 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris spread the "Mucha style" internationally, of which Mucha said "I think [the Exposition Universelle] made some contribution toward bringing aesthetic values into arts and crafts." He decorated the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborated with decorating the Austrian Pavilion. His Art Nouveau style was often imitated. The Art Nouveau style however, was one that Mucha attempted to disassociate himself from throughout his life; he always insisted that rather than maintaining any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings were entirely a product of himself and Czech art. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained by his commercial art, when he most wanted to concentrate on more artistic projects.
Mucha's work has continued to experience periodic revivals of interest for illustrators and artists. Interest in Mucha's distinctive style experienced a strong revival during the 1960s (with a general interest in Art Nouveau) and is particularly evident in the psychedelic posters of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, the collective name for British artists Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, and Bob Masseю
It is a strongly acknowledged influence for Stuckist painter Paul Harvey.
The Japanese manga artist Naoko Takeuchi released a series of official posters depicting five of the main characters from her manga series Sailor Moon mimicking Mucha's style. Another manga artist, Masakazu Katsura, has also mimicked Mucha's style several times. Comic book artist and former Marvel Comics Editor in Chief Joe Quesada also borrowed from Mucha's techniques for a series of covers, posters, and prints.
The band Soilent Green used a picture by Mucha for the cover art of their album ''Sewn Mouth Secrets''.
Mucha's work is also a visible influence on heavy metal cover artist/guitarist John Baizley.
One of Mucha's paintings, ''Quo Vadis'' or alternately ''Petronius and Eunice'', was the subject of a legal dispute in 1986. The judgment by Richard Posner describes parts of Mucha's life and work biographically.
Among his many other accomplishments, Mucha was also the restorer of Czech Freemasonry.
On 1 January 2010, his published works went out of copyright and entered the public domain.
On 24 July 2010, he was honored with a Google Doodle in memory of his 150th birthday.
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