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art nouveau

DEFINITIONS OF: art nouveau

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n a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers

Type of:
school
a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
art movement, artistic movement
a group of artists who agree on general principles
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