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Constructivist artist. Used photomontage to glorify Communist leadership and portray triumphs of socialist industry.

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Did 'Le Chat Noir' for the Chat Noir Bar. Strong influence from Japanese woodblock. He really liked cats. Mixed his practices, did alot of art mediums. Brought good art to the public. Started as a painter.

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Worked in Beggarstaff-like style. Maintained volumetric rendering with vivid colors and abstract patterning on the focus of the ad. Did the German U Boat poster during wartime.

4. Created promotional materials for the Swiss National Tourist Office. Avid cinema goer familiar with montage and close-ups.

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Four Scottish students from the Gladsgow school. Mackintosh, McNair, and Macdonald sisters. Symmetrical combo of curved elements with rectangular structure. Celtic inspired color palette. Ambiguous, mystical, occult, and evocative forms. Women are less sexualized. More somber and static than French Nouveau.

6. Created the graphic identity program: logo, typeface, consistent layouts/standardized formats. Products and designs look like a beehive - symbol for working together and productivity.

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Fame/success linked to Sarah Bernhardt (big actor) by designing posters of her performances. Posters feature 'Mucha's Maidens' - a beautiful centra female form, generally holding the product advertised or location in BG. Illustrated curvilinear/gesturally exaggerated hair with an emphasis on the woman's form. Used a muted palette and alot of detail. Women give a sense of unreality, really popularized the sensual woman in a poster trend.

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Ukrainian immigrant to Paris. Revitalized French advertising art. Bold, simple designs that emphasized 2-dimensionality.

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nightclub owner that Toulouse-Latrec did posters for. He is that one angry looking dude holding a stick and is wearing a red scarf.

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Father of the American poster. Art director for Harper's magazine. American art nouveau was not as playfull/pretty - no sensuality. Still has the physical elements though.

11. 1930s comics. Contrast to the sleek styles of Art Deco and Constructivism. Response to the Great Depression - created an escape.

12. Created the Dada 3 magazine to help spread word of the movement. Rejected established typographic and composition conventions, and sought to disrupt reader's expectations. Used different typefaces, orientations, overprints, and spacing.

13. New universal language. The supremacy of pure feelings in creative art. Abstract forms conveying powerful emotions. Inspired Contructivism

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'The American Beardsley' Used more colors than Beardsley tho. Maximized potential of new print technology - duplication, scale, and patterns.

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International movement starting in 1916 in Zurich. Focused on the nonsense, random, and absurd. Reaction to terrors of WWI.

16. The 'Manifesto of Futurism,' written by Filippo Marinetti. Focused on the technological triumph of humanity over nature.

17. Art Nouveau in Germany. Means 'youth style'. Also the name of the period's magazine: which had a different nameplate with each issue. Magazine covers would 'speak' to the youth."

18. Artist/graphic designer. Designed for Merz magazine. Inspired by the Dada spirit. Used different asymmetric layouts each issue.

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Late 1800s British painters. Used this pseudonym to protect their identity as artists. Cut paper aesthetic that ignored prevalent art nouveau trends.

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Used Sachplakat style in both commercial and wartime posters. Did the 8th Victory Loan propaganda poster for the Central Powers.

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Used Sachplakat style which carried over to wartime propaganda. His wartime poster was the medical ad for troops (has a big red cross in the back).

22. 1923-1932. Dada inspired magazine. Layout changed each issue. Used sans-serif type and asymmetrical layout.

23. Communicated ideas to the masses with posters and meant to raise moral. Central powers approach - assail the enemy, embraced modern abstract styles.

24. Social and art movement based on youth technology, speed, and violence. Emphasizes and glorifies concepts of the future. Embraced machine aesthetic.

25. Famous theatrical/movie actor. Her fame led to Mucha's popularity. It was his posters for her performances that rose them both to stardom.