Job is a 1896 advertising poster Alphonse Mucha designed for the JOB cigarette paper company, showing a woman with a swirling mass of long hair curling around the JOB lettering, a composition often cited as the fullest early statement of Mucha's decorative style: flattened space, sinuous whiplash line, and a stylized female figure integrated with lettering and ornament into one continuous decorative surface. It remains one of the most widely reproduced images of commercial Art Nouveau graphic design.
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Year Created MediumColor lithograph poster 1 Connections
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The JOB cigarette paper poster is a color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha.
Created By
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
Sources
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learningchapter on Art Nouveau, section on Alphonse Mucha
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