Just a short explanation for the name of this series for those of you who don't know Mucha, he was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist(1860 - 1939). I'm a huge fan of his works, and I say fan because if he were alive today I'd be the fan outside his studio with one of those poster board signs that say "!!I HEART MUCHA!!". I think his work is amazing, I admire his skill, sense of style and composition, and would love to see it someday in my own work. One thing you are often taught to do in art school is to do great masters studies to help you understand their work better. I didn't want to do a reproduction of his work so I decided I would look at creating some paintings loosely using some of his many wonderful illustrations that he did as a bases. I'm not sure how many of these I'll do.. but I hope that they will lead me towards doing more of my own paintings down the road that have a feeling of Mucha's style intermingled with my own.
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and I'm a fan of your work...this is gorgeous, Angela!
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