Art nouveau billboard woman illustration at film theatre 1895.

Jules Chrets poster advertising the Thtre Optique (Optical Theatre) immortalised a momentous convergence of technology, culture, history, and art with the 1892 debut of Emile Reynauds praxinoscope at the Muse Grvin in Paris. Reynaud presented his Pantomimes Lumineuses, the worlds first animated films, using his innovative system which projected light through moving pictures to offer illuminated pantomimes.

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts, known in different languages by different names: Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Modernisme catal in Catalan, etc. In English, it is also known as the Modern Style. The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle poque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914.

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