BBC - Culture - What #Art_Nouveau can teach us about national identity
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http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/wm/live/976_549/images/live/p0/68/74/p068749p.jpg Art Nouveau was the first self-consciously international modern art movement. Frustrated by the rigid constraints of 19th Century academic art and disillusioned with the way industrialised production had sacrificed quality for quantity, a growing number of artists sought to develop a new style which would embrace the modern to transform society for the better. For its motif they chose nature, which since the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 had come to represent evolution and therefore progress.