The king of designing decorative theatrical posters and an all-time famous illustrator, Alphonse Mucha. He was born in Ivancice, Moravia (today's region of the Czech Republic). He was a man who worked at different workplaces related to painting work. With time, he tried various jobs and started to freelance portraits and paintings.
Later one day, when he visited a print shop, he unexpectedly saw a demand for a new poster to promote a play starring one of the most beautiful and famous actresses in Paris, Sarah Bernhardt, so he decided to go for it, which paved the way for a 6-year contract with Sarah as she was amazed by his work. This was when this man's real journey began after years of hard work and multiple hurdles.
He was an artist who wanted to expand the boundaries of art, and no doubt, he always succeeded. Alphonse Mucha was famous for the striking posters he designed, which were loved by true lovers of great artwork. Not only this, his paintings demonstrated the efforts and hard work he put into his work. Alphonses' work wasn't just the work of any ordinary artist but had specific and distinctive themes.
His work very often featured paintings of beautiful women. The patterns and details of the images left people speechless. The Universal Exhibition held in Paris played a significant role in promoting and expanding the ideas behind several photographs he made, which brought forth the concept of having aesthetics in art and design. Alphonse Mucha proved what he stated: that 'art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more.
This is why, although he
was known almost everywhere in Paris and later throughout the world, he
always worked on his ideas that, in one way or another linked to his birthplace
or worked on projects that gloried and distinguished art.
Among
all his famous work, onee time when Alphonse got to collaborate
with Georges Fouquet (a French jewelry designer) was one in a billion. Another
life-long project behind Muchas success was a series of twenty canvas paintings
in which he demonstrated a pictorial message for the people persecuted
intensely- The Slav people.
Although By the time of his death, (16th December 1897), times had revolved a lot, and people then started considering his artwork as 'out dated', but with the effort his son, 'Jiri Mucha' put in by devoting a significant part of his life to writing about his artwork bought forth the attention of many people back again and his style revived!
