Art Nouveau and Psychedelic

Where do these arts overlap and different?

Art Nouveau first appeared as an “new art” in 20 th century. It adapted a lot from the old styles and art forms such as Gothic and Rococo. Its main style was trying to have man as the center and arts are surrounded him and his life. It used a lot of flowing curvilinear and multiple colors. Much of these characteristics were taken from the life forms that exits in the nature.
After a few decades, a new art form called Psychedelic which had borrowed a lot elements from Art Nouveau which was still using life forms such as flowers, trees but less complex, less curvilinear. It used a much brighter colors, in more organic shapes. Much of graffiti artists design based on psychedelic art to get into another generations.
To my thought, I think the advertisement of Nokia which is using L'amour style is much inspired by these two form of arts.

What can we learn from this?

As an designer, we have to consider some basic elements like: line, shape, color, texture etc when critique or design something. To these two form of arts, how it using curves, line and color are the key elements to consider.
In addition, how these arts got inspirations from is another interesting point to me. The content of these arts are just about things that exists in every day life of human. It shows that inspirations for designers are the things that surrounding us, the experiments that we gather, what we need is knowing how to discover it and how to express it into visual.

References

Wilkey, P 2003. Visio Communication Project Estimate Packet [online: http://www.noojee.com/webdev/pdfs/graphic%20design.pdf ]