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"Alphonse Mucha’s body of work is full of contradictions.
He is most often identified with late 19th-century Paris, but was in fact
Moravian (Czech). His vision for the purpose of art was for the betterment of
humanity and creation of utopia, but his most famous artworks are
advertisements. His style typifies Art Nouveau, a movement at its peak between
the 1890s and 1910s, but his career spanned several decades from the late 1800s
until his death in 1939.
Born in 1860 in what is now the Czech Republic, Mucha trained in Paris. He
worked as an illustrator in Paris and Prague, and exhibited work in the Paris
Salon before rising to fame with his poster works and branching out into other
media. After several visits to the United States, he returned to his homeland
in 1910 and remained there until his death in 1939.
A new exhibition of his work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the largest
of its kind seen in Australia with over 200 pieces on display, shows the full
breadth of Mucha’s work and his commitment to the transformative power of art
across media."
Via Joyce Donahue and Jane Rakali.
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