Laurel
Laurel by Czech Painter Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939); samt en dygtig illustrator og grafisk kunstner, der var en vigtig styrke i jugendstidsperioden; kendt for sin stiliserede, udsmykkede og dekorative teaterplakater.
This is a wonderful illustration of an attractive young lady presented in the art nouveau style in a side portrait view within a circular view port.
She is positioned in front of a circular tiled background at the inner core that is overlaid with wide tiled ring with with oval tiled shapes and then to a two layer tiled ring and finally a solid ring.
She has brown curly hair with yellow streaks running throughout with long strands of hair hanging on both side of her neck from the back of her head that are red and light pink.
Her hair is tied mid way on the top by a red ribbon and on the left side of her hair just above her ear is a flower with leaves; and below this is a head piece composed of disc that wraps around the back of her head.
She is wearing a white dress with a large wide collar that wraps around the entire upper portion of the dress that is decorated in colorful triangular and cone like designs.
Around this inner frame is a square frame filled with green plants that are directed to the four corners of the frame; and on the top and bottom of this frame are two rectangular boxes filled with plants and fruit, with the top box being smaller than the bottom box.
This all tied together with a separator the fits along the perimeter of the three different frames.
Dette er en remasteret digital kunst, gamle mestre reproduktion af et offentligt domæne billede, der er tilgængeligt som et lærredstryk online.
Info nedenfor fra Wikipedia.org
Alfons Maria Mucha juli 24, 1860 – juli 14, 1939), internationalt kendt som Alphonse Mucha. Han var en fremtrædende tjekkisk maler, illustratør og grafiker, bor i Paris i jugendtiden, og er bedst kendt for sine tydeligt stiliserede og dekorative teatralsk plakater, især Sarah Bernhardts.
Han producerede illustrationer, reklamer, dekorative paneler, og designs, som blev blandt de mest kendte billeder i perioden.
I anden del af sin karriere, i en alder af 43, han vendte tilbage til sit hjemland Bohemia-Moravia-regionen i Østrig og dedikerede sig til at male en serie på tyve monumentale lærreder kendt som The Slav Epic, skildrer historien om alle de slaviske folk i verden, som han malede imellem 1912 og 1926.
I 1928, på 10 -årsdagen for Tjekkoslovakiets uafhængighed, han præsenterede serien for den tjekkiske nation. Han betragtede det som sit vigtigste arbejde. Det er nu udstillet i Prag.