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Art Nouveau

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Summary

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.

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broader international movement context
Casa Milà is a pinnacle of the Catalan variant of Art Nouveau, known as Modernisme, which emphasized organic forms and naturalistic motifs.
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broader international artistic movement
Casa Batlló is a quintessential example of the Catalan variant of Art Nouveau, sharing the movement's focus on organic forms, asymmetry, and decorative integration.
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stylistic successor and departure from historicist revivals
While Gothic Revival looked to the medieval past, Art Nouveau emerged later as a rejection of such historicism in favor of organic, modern forms.
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