Art Nouveau still lives.

Art Nouveau was an art movement that did not stay within a specific medium. As an applied art, it transcended into architecture, and decorative arts. Characterized by flowing curves and stylied movements. It peaked for nearly 15 years.

Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859-1923) Chat Noir (French for black cat), one of the best recognized Art Nouveau works, was actually a poster to advertise a 19^th century cabaret.

Modern artists also use the Art Nouveau style. Daniel hosts a website showing his work at artofdaniel.com as an illustrator and professional artist. The majority of his illustrations are figurative or abstract.

Ancient scripts with modern applications.

     “They make great armband tattoos” are the words of Jeremy Hall when describing the use of Sanskrit in modern day tattooing. “Sanskrit words or scripts look very organized because of the horizontal line joining each character” he states when describing the utility of the language.

     Sanskrit, an ancient language dating as early as 1500BC, was used for Hindu and other religions. It was also used for poetry, technical, and philosophical writings. Sometimes called the “mother of all languages”, today it is used in Hindu ceremony.

     Sanskrit tattoos are recently gaining in popularity and designs with their meanings and designs hosted on many websites. Often in a band around the wrist or arm, sometimes they are depicted scrolling down the wrist or incorporated into elaborate traditional designs.

     If an ancient script is still being tattooed to people’s skin, can we still call it a ‘dead’ language? 

Primitive to Primitivism

    Primitive cave renderings of our ancient ancestors adorned the rock floors, walls, and ceilings of ancient homes long ago. This first

system of art, dubbed so because of the unity shared among them, was called the "Magdalenian art system"; the first in human history, 40,000-10,000BC. Qualities of later systems of art, such as composition, proportion, and refined color, simply were not developed to apply.

      Beginning in the 1700's a new 'system' came into being, in some ways reminiscent of the Magdalenian. The term Naive art applies to art created by those outsiders from the art community of the times, whom had not the luxury of practiced study and quality education of the artists at the time. Their work was characterized by the apparent 'abandonment' of fundamental

artistic qualities. The reality was that the lack of fundamental study gave rise to breakthroughs not available to the 'stuck in the box' artists. In fact, this style has been labeled 'primitivism' because of its resemblance to primitive art.