Alphonse Mucha — Les Saisons: Summer | Art Nouveau Poster Print

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Alphonse Mucha — Les Saisons: Summer | Art Nouveau Poster PrintAlphonse Mucha (18601939) became the defining voice of Art Nouveau after his landmark 1895 poster of Sarah Bernhardt made him overnight famous across Paris. His signature style sinuous lines, radiant halos, and women adorned with botanical ornament became so synonymous with the era that the French called the movement "le style Mucha." Beyond commercial posters, Mucha devoted his deepest energies to the Slav Epic, a cycle of monumental canvases

he developed a systematic theory of colour and form set out in Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane

and a minimalist elegance that defined the shin-hanga movement at its peak

Reijer Stolk (1896–1945) was a Dutch graphic artist

Leon Carrol was a British botanical and decorative painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Schmidt's work synthesised the Bauhaus's core belief that art and design were inseparable

A punchy single-word typographic print in the Bauhaus tradition of graphic reduction — where one word

Printed in vintage Bangla typography

captures the gothic grandeur and theatrical mystery of the film with the bold colour printing techniques of 1920s lithography

Ohara Koson (1877–1945) was the supreme master of kachō-ga — the Japanese art of bird-and-flower prints — and one of the most beloved names in the Shin Hanga movement

perfectly observed — remain the most collectable of all Shin Hanga prints and are held in major museum collections worldwide

a supreme colourist

His paintings of ancient African civilisations — including his celebrated series on Piankhy the Great

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