Oil Paintings Reproductions

About The Painting - A spring

El Greco was a famous painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance period.

Alphonse Mucha is best known for creating beautiful and striking ad posters in Art Nouveau style. Mucha painted tirelessly as he designed costumes, jewelry, stained glass, interiors and drafted with pastels and for architects.

A Spring is one out of a collection of four posters depicting the prime four seasons - Summer, Winter, Autumn and Spring. Mucha is now called the father of the Parisian Art Nouveau movement. Since Hitler denounced Mucha's Slav works, they were repressed for a long duration of time and slowly being rediscovered now.

It's true that Mucha's art seduces and entices the viewer. His women were graceful, delicate and unabashedly tempting. A Spring is a wonderful example of Mucha's style. Mucha's Spring is a woman with streaming wavy long hair, heavy-lidded eyes, a full and proportionate mouth, clad lightly in flowing fabrics and is the epitome of beauty, revealing Mucha's fascination with sensuous characteristics of female beauty.

Alfonse Mucha, one of the most fascinating artists of the early 20th century, designed his compositions with comprehensiveness thereby paying homage to the ideal of imaginative versatility. His virtuosity is reflected only in his paintings but also in works of decorative graphic art which gave rise to his popularity.

A Spring represents the female as ornamental and revealing the influence of the English Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics on Alfonse Mucha. The sensuous brilliance of Mucha's draftsmanship, especially when using twining and whiplash lines bestows a strange elegance to his glorious female forms. The interlocking contours and smoothly flowing forms of the women and flowers in a fresh and striking manner made his posters a commercial success!