When you think of Art Nouveau, you probably picture the entrances to the Paris Metro with delicate swirling leaves and elegant glass canopy.
Perhaps you envision Mucha's posters with dream-like women covered with flowers and jewelry.
But what about this: a rock concert poster from 1967 featuring The Doors?
As surprising as it may seem, the style - sometimes referred to as "Art Nouveau on Acid" - has profoundly marked the aesthetics of the era of free love and flower power.
In today's video, we'll learn about this pure product of the Belle Époque and why it has never quite gone away.
Art Nouveau was a highly decorative art movement started by the new middle-class, which established itself in cities throughout Europe and the United States at the turn of the century.
It was a genuinely cosmopolitan project of modernity that existed in all sorts of media, forms, scales, and geographies.
Everything from architecture, interior design, decorative arts, fashion and graphic design was influenced by this new art.
It was literally new since the term Art Nouveau is a French word for "new art".
What was so new about it?
