History Hop Reveal - Art Nouveau

I am very excited to be joining in with Leah Curtis'
History Hop. 

The idea is participants choose an historical era 
and make a piece of jewellery inspired by that time 
then reveal their creations 
on the same date and 'hop around' to see 
what everybody made.    

I chose Art Nouveau for my historical era. 

So what is Art Nouveau? 

Literally French for 'new art' it is , roughly speaking, 
 the creative artwork from the 

early 1890's up until the first world war. 

 Heavily influenced by nature the Art Nouveau style showcases 

lots of curves and flowing lines, flowers, plants and pretty women
with long flowing hair. 

Beautiful natural subject matter. 

' Its influence can be found in painting, sculpture, jewellery, metalwork, glass and ceramics. 

The drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, the architecture of Victor Horta and Paul Hankar and the poster designs of Alphonse Mucha are some of the most familiar examples of the Art Nouveau Style.' 

- Quote from the Victoria and Albert Museum website. 

  

I have to admit that when I think 'Art Nouveau'

 the very first thing that springs to mind is the art work by Mucha. 

Mucha art work advertising Job cigarettes.
-When did smoking look this beautiful! 

So for my design I choose a porcelain cabochon

 featuring his art work as my focal. I beaded a flower design 

above the cabochon to keep in with the era's theme of nature. 

A quick Google search of the jewellery from that period 

showed me that it was mainly precious metal work and 

enamelling that were popular, but I wanted to make a beaded piece. 

So my inspiration, as you can see, 

is taken from the aesthetics of the era

 rather than the materials!

I'm pretty new to this bead embroidery thing 
but I really enjoyed making it. 


Thank you to Leah Curtis for the inspiration and 
for organising this fun blog hop :-) 

Participants list 

Leah Curtis - Indus Valley - beadyeyedbunny.blogspot.co.uk
Laney Mead - Māori - laney-izzybeads.blogspot.co.uk
Becca - Art Nouveau - godsartistinresidence.blogspot.com
Melissa - English Romanticism and Mourning Jewelry - beadrecipes.wordpress.com
Tracy Stillman - Native American - tracystillmandesigns.com
Gerda - English Romanticism and Mourning Jewelry - gerdascraftsblog.blogspot.com
Liz E - Native North American - beadcontagion.blogspot.com
Ahowin - Māori (New Zealand)  - blog.ahowinjewelry.com 
Jasvanti - Indus Valley - jewelrybyjasvanti.blogspot.com
 Lizzie - Art Nouveau - theneedtobead.blogspot.co.uk 

Julia Hay - Merovingian - pandanimal.blogspot.co.uk

Dini - Celtic - angazabychanges.blogspot.nl

Caroline - Art Nouveau - blueberribeads.co.uk 
Charlie - Moche of Peru - clay-space.com/blog 
Karin - China - maverickbeads.blogspot.com
Niky Sayers - Rome - silverniknats.blogspot.com 
Marcia Dunne - Celctic and Mourning Jewelry - thealternativefoundry.blogspot.co.uk
anafiassa - Mesopotamia - anafiassa.blogspot.com
Kokopelli - Native American - kokopellidesign.blogspot.com
Christa - Native American - adventuresofwonebeadywoman.blogspot.com
Clair - Roman - obstinatepursuit.blogspot.co.uk
Susan Bowie - Native American - susanbowie.wordpress.com
Gloria Allen - English Romanticism - gloriaallendesigns.blogspot.com
Sheila Garrett - Early Russia - 4brownowl.blogspot.co.uk