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Educator Webinar

Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary

Exhibition dates: October 23, 2021 – January 23, 2022

October 12, 2021

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Today’s Speaker

Michele Frederick, PhD

Associate Curator of European Art and Provenance Research

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Webinar Housekeeping

This is a webinar. You won’t have video and speaking capabilities in this program. We will use the chat and other platforms to interact.

Closed Captioning available in Zoom

Questions? Use the chat to ask questions and to connect with other participants.�

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Let’s Learn More About You

Drop the following into the chat:

Your name
Where you are joining from

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Certificates of Participation

This session will be counted as .1 CEU. You must follow your school/district’s process for approval.

At the end of today’s session, you will be given a link to a Google Form exit ticket.

You must complete and submit the Google Form to qualify for a certificate.

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Land Acknowledgement

North Carolina Museum of Art

American Indians have lived in Wake County and the House Creek area in which the Museum Park is located for thousands of years. To date no archaeological work has been done to identify specific sites associated with American Indian use of this land, but it is likely such places exist.

As a result of population displacement caused by colonialism, several groups of Siouan and Iroquoian ancestry have ties to the Museum Park property. Contemporary North Carolina American Indian tribes that live in and have traveled throughout North Carolina include the Cherokee, Coharie, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi, Sappony, and Waccamaw Siouan.

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North Carolina Museum of Art

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Fall Exhibitions at the NCMA

More info

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September 25, 2021–February 6, 2022

NC Artist Connections: The Beautiful Project, Stephen Hayes, and Hồng-Ân Trương

September 4, 2021–February 13, 2022

Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary

October 23, 2021–January 23, 2022

PARTICIPATE: Activate the Senses

December 18, 2021–January 30, 2022

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Webinar Goals

Teachers will:

Gain familiarity with the Art Nouveau movement and its aesthetic characteristics.

Learn about the life of Alphonse Mucha and the development of his artistic philosophy through the following themes:

Women as Patron and Muse to Mucha
Art for the People: Technology and Mass Culture and Beauty as a Social Good
Art for Political Aims: Representing Eastern European traditions, history, and culture

Make relevant connections between Art Nouveau, Mucha, and your classroom.

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Who is Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)?

Born in Ivančice in Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the Czech Republic
Worked first in Vienna as a set decorator and then in Munich after being rejected by the Prague Academy of Fine Arts
Moved to Paris in 1887, where he studied at the Académie Julian
Begins working with Sarah Bernhardt in 1894, rocketing him to fame and making a name for his work in advertising
Relocates to Prague in 1910, where he works for the rest of his life
Mucha is one of the most well-known Art Nouveau pioneers, and his work remains some of the most recognizable from the Art Nouveau era

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Contents

120+ objects from the Mucha Foundation Trust Collection

Lithographs, prints, photographs, drawings, watercolors, bronze sculptures, bronze plaques, commercial objects, fabric, magazines, books, ceramics, and multimedia projections

Works from the NCMA Collection

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I. Reading Art Nouveau:

What details/visual elements make this Art Nouveau?

Use Zoom whiteboard annotation to mark and then type comments in the chat

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I. Reading Art Nouveau

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What is Art Nouveau?

Called many things in different languages, but it means ”New Art”
An international style of art, architecture, and decorative arts that rose to popularity in Western Europe in the late 1880s, reaching its peak around the 1900 Paris Exposition.
Characterized by sinuous and natural forms, complex organic designs, a preference for elongated female figures, and often pastel or muted coloring.
A reactionary style that rejected the rigidity and historicism of academic art and sought a new form of dynamism.

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Reflect

Add comments in the chat

What questions do you still have?

What do you think your students might find appealing about Art Nouveau?

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II. Mucha & Sarah Bernhardt

Women: Icons & Muses

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Reflect

Add comments in the chat

What questions do you still have?

What can students learn about a path to success from Mucha’s experience?

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III. Art for the People

Technology & Posters

Beauty as a Social Good

How do you define beauty? Contribute your responses to make a word cloud: https://answergarden.ch/2136175

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III. Art for the People

Technology & Posters

Beauty as a Social Good

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Mucha and Modern Beauty

FNoRD, La Beauté De La Confiance (The Beauty of Confidence), Watercolor and Ink on paper

Lakeshia T. Reid, Healing in a Weeping Place, Oil on Canvas

Alisha Locklear Monroe, Blessings, Acrylic, Marker, Coloring Pencil and Pastels on Paper

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Reflect

add comments in chat

What questions do you still have?

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IV. The Artist as Political Actor

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The Slav Epic

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Reflect

add comments in chat

What questions do you still have?

How can we make an impact through creative expression?

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Celebrating the NCMA Collection

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Celebrating the NCMA Collection

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Art, Nature, Mucha: �Museum Park Wallpaper

Custom, site-specific botanical illustrations

Modeled after Art Nouveau wallpaper and textile designs (ie. Bradbury & William Morris, left)

Illustrated plants & flowers will be

NC native
Growing in the Museum Park

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Reflection

What questions would you ask your students in relation to the themes we discussed?

https://padlet.com/ncartmuseum/Muchawebinar

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Google Form Exit Ticket

Must complete to earn .1 CEU for today’s session.

https://bit.ly/Muchaexit

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Keep in Touch

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Jill Taylor, jill.taylor@ncdcr.gov

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