'Never Leave Me'
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Kids who think black & white means boring were obviously deprived of movies about giant rampaging monsters. Which is a shame.
This. I was watching Dracula and other old horror films with my dad on Shock Theater from the time I was 2. Too young? Maybe, but I have fond memories. Especially of the Dracula doll I asked for and got for Christmas as a wee child. Yes, Grandma was scandalized.
All my nieces loved the B&W Shirley Temple movies as kids, as did I. And we all liked various horror movies and Three Stooges stuff. So I think there are definitely some exceptions.
We didn't have a color tv until I was about seven or so, so B&W was no big deal even after we got the new tv.
I gave my parents their first color TV...in 1986. I didn't even know Wizard of Oz had color in it until I was 15, when I saw it on a neighbor's color TV.
Art Nouveau is turn-of-the-century, organic, plant-inspired design, think, the Metro entrances in Paris, some of Tiffany's glasswork.
I always think of Maxfield Parrish paintings (though I know he was technically doing his own thing rather than being a part of the movement) and Mucha vases with regard to Art Nouveau.
When I think Art Noveau, I think Aubrey Beardsley.
Someone told me Un Chien Andalou was Art Nouveau but it must be Surrealism, no?
Someone told me Un Chien Andalou was Art Nouveau but it must be Surrealism, no?
Definitely key surrealism. Whether it employs Nouveau design in pursuit of that is another question. It's been forever since I saw it, and, honestly, the only thing I remember is the eyeball.
Caligari is famously Bauhaus in style, so both expressionist (as Sophia notes) and modernist.
Technically Gaudi is Nouveau but as, I think, Sylvie noted, it's kind of its own li'l wacky thing. (Which I love to death. My favorite architect.)
For me Art Nouveau is curvilinear, inspired by nature, stylized.
Art Deco is flatter, more geometrical, just as stylized. It eventually morphs into things like Streamline Moderne.
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