Century Magazine - Midsummer Holiday Number - New York
- Louis John Rhead (1857 – 1926)
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Century Magazine - Midsummer Holiday Number - New York
- Louis John Rhead (1857 – 1926)
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Postcard design for the month June by Alphonse Mucha.
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Eugène Grasset
‘June’ from Calendar-La Belle Jardinière
1896
Georges de Feure, 1900
Georges de Feure, Interieur Moderne, 1900
Georges de Feure, 1901
Georges le Feure, The Absinthe Drinker
In Le buveur d’absinthe, a young man ponders the invisible near distance whilst in front of him sits a glass of absinthe. The powerful allure of this greenish liquor was almost mythical at the time. While many associated it with a life of debauchery and vice, many artists and poets of the nineteenth century were under the spell of the powerful green potion. Oscar Wilde once proclaimed ‘Absinthe has a wonderful colour, green. A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?’. The intoxication and ill-effects of absinth consumption were depicted by artists such as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Raffaelli and Beraud among others. Whilst novelists such as Emile Zola and the Goncourt brothers approached the subject by telling tales of working class women descending into alcoholism, de Feure’s placement of a glass of absinthe in front of his sitter clearly singles him out as an upper class dandy.
Georges de Feure was instrumental in the creation of the Art Nouveau style in France. A multi-talented, versatile and creative artist, his creations ranged from Symbolist paintings, lithographs and posters to Art Deco furniture, frames, carpets and glassware. He created ballets for Ravel and Debussy, designed theatrical costumes and stage sets and even constructed aeroplanes. (via)
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