FREUD AND ART NOUVEAU. 1900 VIENNA Too often takes a joke on Art Nouveau. Despite its many aspects (Civil, Nouveau and Modernism) and spontaneous birth in various parts of Europe, Brussels, Vienna and Barcelona in particular-, pretended to be a style, just a style adapted to the wealthy gentry of the early twentieth century. Although it was a common sentiment that emerged from the collective consciousness, handled much of representing indigenous values \u200b\u200baccording to each area. It was the first in mvimiento call themselves "style."
Sigmund Freud, a renowned doctor, psychiatrist, freethinking Vienna (1890 approx.) Praised the courage of the unconscious generator real personality. A true self that could only be accessed by more or less ortdoxos methods.
Cocaine Freud opened the way for new states of mind, he said enough to reach other layers of consciousness. Its use, widespread in the then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
, spread to the young and not so young artists from the city relevant. One among them Gustav Klimt
decided that the cocaine would be their main method of work to carry out its own investigation into the feelings and their relationship with the subconscious. He was born Viennese symbolism.
Klimt
Cravings for rebelling against the emerging French Impressionism, by attempting to express a reality instead of interpreting it, led him to use the pictorial elements, especially the colors, as Baudelaire
recommend, by the symbol and synesthesia
.
itself will Gustav Klimt, who, supported by young artists and students of architecture melts
Vienna Secession movement, with its magazine Ver Sacrum. Their goals went to renew the historicist style of the old imperial capital, to resume an architecture and art to communicate directly with nature and renew the international art scene by a New Style, performed by artists educated, reformist and great technical and historical concimientos.
