June 10 is 'Art Nouveau Day'. In case you missed it, Art Nouveau was popular from 1890-1910. What was so 'nouveau' about it? In a world of mass-produced items, that relegated 'crafts' to an inferior rank, 20 artists in Belgium declared that every object should be artistically pleasing. They thought that all arts [and crafts] […]
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