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Setting the tone for this post with a poster by Jules Chéret (1836-1932) advertising Job Cigarette Papers. You could say he was the Godfather of stone litho printing as a ‘pop’ phenomenon and just seeing his work demonstrates the influence it had on younger artists in Paris of the late […]
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The Czech artist Alfons Mucha is synonymous with the Art Nouveau movement. After being launched to fame in Paris creating a poster for Gismonda, a play starring actress Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha was flooded with commissions. One of these was The Seasons, a set of four painted decorative panels which became his most popular […]