Alphonse Mucha

Mm

... there's a very famous poster of a, of a female artist who was, that was attributed to Alphonse Mucha, I believe, and this, this famous artwork was supposedly the very beginnings of art deco as an entire movement.

Mm.

And he was like, "Actually, but when you date it, long story short, it was likely created by Gauguin," and the only way it could've been attributed to Mucha, he actually links, he's like, "There is a person that they called Anna Lajavenese-

Mm-hmm.

Alphonse Mucha, also another fantastic artist and a poster artist as well-

Hmm

... doing posters for plays and, and Folies Bergère and things like that.

I'm not telling you the title yet.

A book on Mucha, actually two books on Mucha, but they're different.

I'm doing a book on female artists, everyone would be pleased to know, and a book on 50 great artists.

There's quite a few going on.

yes yes what kills me is that all of these people all these tartarians they are golden age architectural fans they like what people were building in the late 1800s and 1900s well so do i me too

I like Alphonse Mucha.

was actually one of the people that bid on the architecture for all of these world's fairs.

And he submitted drawings that would boggle your mind.

And I think there was a time you had artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, who were great artists, who were also great poster artists.

Alphonse Mucha, also another fantastic artist and a poster artist as well.

doing posters for plays and Folies Bergère and things like that.

And so when motion film started to happen in the late, late 1800s, early 1900s, um the poster was automatically the first thing that you did you did large lithographic posters for uh the train or for you know the productions of the lumiere brothers uh and and they were as you said you know they were a main way of advertising uh and and promoting the film The essential use of the poster, or for that matter, even the digital static image, has never really changed.

It's

a full body, very Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha, if you know who that artist is.

It's, yeah, that style.

Kelly, a very personal question.