Alphonse Mucha was a very influential but seldom a mentioned figure in the art history. He is more that anyone known and responsible for the 'Art Nouveau' style that developed around the turn of the century. It applied his considerable talents to a wide variety of pursuits ranging from painting and sculpture to poster, magazine, and calendar illustration, and the product and architectural design. It is probably as much because he did things other than paintings hung on museum walls that many of the leading artistic institutions have ignored his work for most of the century. The mere fact that he opposed the cubist revolution and created recognizable and beautiful images was most likely the reason why the art critics ignored his art. Mucha also painted historical paintings such as the history of the Slavs, this work took from 1912-1928. In addition to being a brilliant painter and illustrator, Mucha was also a master at design, he created designs for tabl

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