BLOG POSTING due Tuesday, September Sixth

Art Nouveau
Part One:
3 Designers:
Choose three designers from your textbook and paraphrase traits of their work. For each designer, find three images on the internet that represent the characteristics of their work as described in the book. Save these images to your desktop and re-post these images to your blog. Do not link the images to your blog - these are more-often-than-not broken when I look at them. If you need to take a screen shot, crop it, and re-post it, that will be fine, but again - do not link images to your blog post - that does not work. Post a link below your image back to the original image. This is classwork, educational practice, and is therefore not susceptible to the same copyright rules as the professional world. If you simply link back to the original, that will be fine. Also include the name, date, title, artist for each work. 3 designs x 3 designers = 9 images to be posted, each described for there relevance to the textbook's characterization of the designer.

Part Two:
Art Nouveau, a production designer's perspective:
Compare and contrast the world of Art Nouveau in Carroll Moore's Toulouse-Lautrec and Monmarte and in the examples of Toulouse-Lautrec's art and design from the time to Catherine Martin's production design for Moulin Rouge, 2002, dir. Baz Luhrmann. What do you see re-presented in the film that you see foregrounded in the documentary, in the artwork of the time? How does Catherine Martin's Monmarte differ from Moore's and why? How might Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings differ from his posters in terms of their possible influence on the design of the film? Post one painting and one poster each from Toulouse-Lautrec that you feel had an influence on the production design of Moulin Rouge, 2002 and briefly explain.