Posted by  Paul Malo on March 31, 2002 at 06:34:24:

In Reply to:  Art Nouveau vs Victor Horta posted by LIU on March 31, 2002 at 05:53:13:

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re: possibly the most exciting topic ever!!! March 28, 2002 at 13:44:57.

The Art Nouveau was primarily a decorative style, concerned with image--but it was not totally unconcerned with substance, for it derived a constructional ethic and aesthetic from Viollet-le-Duc, who promoted "honest" and inventive use of the new material, iron, suggesting radically new forms. The contemporary work of Eiffel also was influenctial . In this sense Horta and the Art Nouveau were "modern."

Horta's sense of form was largely linear. The Art Nouveau was entranced with the curved, serpentine, or "whiplash" line. Mass was not a major concern, but space was. The anti-massive taste was also proto-modern, but Horta's spatial sense was largely traditional. De Stijl was yet to come.

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