Art Creations Friday Challenge

This week the theme for the

Art Creations Challenge

 is this lithograph of

the artist, Alphonse Mucha!

F. Champenois Imprimeur-Éditeur

Because Art Nouveau is one of my

favorite types of art to use

 when creating mixed media,

 I wanted to provide some history

about this exceptionally talented artist!

Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters,

advertisements, and book illustrations,

as well as designs for jewellery, carpets, wallpaper,

and theatre sets in what was initially called the Mucha Style

 but became known as Art Nouveau !

Mucha's works frequently featured

beautiful, strong young women in

flowing vaguely Neoclassical looking robes,

often surrounded by lush flowers which

sometimes formed haloes behind the women's heads.

.

The Art Nouveau style however,

 was one that Mucha attempted to

distance himself from throughout his life;

he always insisted that rather than adhering

to any fashionable stylistic form,

his paintings came purely from within.

He became very frustrated when his fame grew

 through the popularity of his commercial art

when he most wanted to concentrate on more

 lofty projects that would ennoble art and his birthplace.

 Art exists

only to communicate

 a spiritual message,

 and nothing more!

---Alphonse Mucha

Now...to show you what I created for this challenge!!

This is my interpretation of this theme

 and of Mucha's lithograph!!

Thanks for coming by and looking at my entry! 

 Have a wonderful day!!

***quotes for Alphonse Mucha came from Wikipedia