Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha was a decorative artist and Art Nouveau painter who was best known for his distinct style. Mucha was born on July 24, 1860 but sadly died on July 14, 1939. Many of Mucha's works consisted of illustrations, postcards, designs, advertisements, and paintings. 

Mucha was one of the pioneers of Art Nouveau as during the late 1890's he created a vast number of posters, advertisements, and paintings, as well as designs for carpets, wallpapers, jewellery, and theatre sets.

Some of Alphonse Mucha's pieces:



 

I like Mucha's pieces because of his use of beautiful women to, for example, advertise whatever product was being advertised. One of Mucha's most successful posters was for a cigarette rolling paper company called 'JOB'; this piece was just one of a couple of posters Mucha created for JOB. This JOB poster (image on the left) displays the use of gold, green, and blue together with orange and purple were used within this poster in order to catch the eye of the audience and this was effective as this poster was used to advertise rolling papers. The fact that the woman is in an almost sexual position shows that she is enjoying the product a lot and it would make the audience feel that they would want to feel the way the woman in the poster feels.

Most of Mucha's works display beautiful women, curves, some sort of floral design or pattern, and or many other things you would usually find within Art Nouveau. I really like Alphonse Mucha's pieces.