From the sinuous lines of a Paris metro entrance to the hallucinatory chaos of a Grateful Dead concert poster, the Musée d’Orsay’s exhibition Art Nouveau Revival traces the evolution of the Art Nouveau style from the late 19th century to the 1970s. Splicing together original Art Nouveau works with mid-century psychedelia allows a visitor to easily perceive the aim of the exhibition – to link the style across disparate historical eras – but also to sense atmospheric distinctions among the style’s various incarnations. In short, the feeling of the works change over time even though the form remains, in some cases, much the same. Furniture, graphic, and interior design transition from a sort of graceful and ghostly union with the natural world, to the gratuitous (and exciting) excess of the 60s. (Until 4 Feb)
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