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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marie Forjan, post: 9495619, member: 147&quot;]The stork is not Art Nouveau, it is not stylized as Art Nouveau would be <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Art Nouveau would take an image of a flower, woman, insect, whatever and stylize it with flowing lines and intermingling forms, it would not be a realistic view.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a book called <i><b>Studies in Plant Form and Design</b></i> published in 1900, it gives examples of how to take a plant form and make it stylized into the then new style that was eventually called Art Nouveau. Here is an example from the book:</p><p><br /></p><p>A realistic view of crocus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]447540[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>An Art Nouveau design of crocus used for a book cover:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]447541[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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