The Mucha Foundation, an independent, non-profit making charity founded to preserve, conserve, and promote the works of Alphonse Mucha, the pre-eminent exponent of Art Nouveau, is announcing the launch of their new, fully re-designed website at www.muchafoundation.org.
The Mucha Foundation´s website has been rebuilt from the ground up as a comprehensive source of information for all things Alphonse Mucha. This new interactive portal includes a gallery that features over 300 pieces from the Mucha Trust Collection, the largest collection of works by Mucha in the world. In the gallery, the visitor will find not only Mucha´s well-known and beloved lithographs, but also a broad range of his oil paintings, sketches, sculpture, and jewellery. The online gallery will develop and expand to reflect the breadth of the collection, offering our visitors an encyclopaedic experience of Mucha´s achievements.
The site features a dynamic, image-rich timeline of Mucha´s life within the context of contemporary historical and artistic events and shows how his artistic legacy has been protected and promoted by his family, leading to the establishment of the Foundation and its ongoing mission to celebrate his life and work.
Visitors will also be able to learn more about the Foundation´s research and preservation work; future, current, and past exhibitions; and news of the Foundation´s efforts to promote and protect Mucha´s artistic achievements.
Currently, the Foundation is organising an exhibition at the National Czech & Solvak Museum & Library in the United States, continuing to advocate for the conservation of Mucha´s masterpiece the Slave Epic as the dispute over the permenent exhibition space with the city of Prague rages on (The Newspaper, 5 April 2012), and is in talks with city officials to open a museum in Paris (Le Journal des Arts, 13 April 2012).
The Mucha Foundation Launches a New Website to Celebrate Alphonse Mucha
London, 25.04.2012 | Published by The Mucha Foundation
Slovenska secesija (Slovenian Secession)
Ljubljana, 18.04.2012 | Published by Robert Simonišek
The book Slovenian Secession provides a new perspective which is reflected in the selection of artists included herein; it includes some names that art history has until now only discussed in the context of other movements. Analysing individual artists the interpretation points out their development, characteristics and elements that bring a painter, an architect or a sculptor closer to the Secession. The concept of ornamentation and the phenomenon of the "Heraclitian flux" are clearly analyzed from the universal perspective as omnipresent features in the fine arts of the period. The most typical figures of the period have been interpreted both in the context of visual art, as well as in the literary context. The style experienced numerous modifications which first manifested in the imitation of the elements of the Vienna and Munich Secessions, but later also in the omission and in the search of its own artistic expression.
SIMONIŠEK, Robert, 2011 / Slovenska secesija (Slovenian Secession)
SLOVENSKA MATICA, Ljubljana
374 pp. 24,5 x 17,5 cm, 116 illustrations. Published in Slovenian (with Summary in English)
Available in hardback / ?29, 70
For more information: http://www.slovenska-matica.si/nove_knjige