Art Nouveau is an international style in art, architecture and applied art appear at the turn of the 20th century. It is an approach to design according to which artists should work on everything from architecture to sculpture to a piece of funiture, making art part of everyday life. Art Nouveau transformed the objects, with combining the art of a traditional craftsman and the industurial productiod.
Art Nouveau is now considered as a ‘total’ style, because it is covering all range of design, in architecture, interior design, decorative arts including jewellery, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils, and lighting and the range of visual arts. Therefore it is an international movement and style.
In Spain, Barcelona was where the movement centred, and the architect Antoni Gaudi, a decorative architectural, his style was mainly the use of floral and organic forms. The most related building he design to the sylistic elements of Art Nouveau was the Casa Batlio (1904-1906) and Case Mila (1906-1908). Casa Batlio situated at Passeig de Gracia, which is part of the Illa de la Discordia in the Eixample district of Barcelona. The building is known as Casa dels ossos locally. It means “house of bones” in English. It was intended for a middle-class family as it located in a prosperous district of Barcelona. The appearance of this building is remarkable, although it had a typical Gaudi style. The ground floor is particularly astonishing with tracery; irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stonework.
