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Image size 15 1/4" x 10 1/2".
Storck was a decorated master of ornament and the ornamental and was a director of The Museum of Applied Science in Vienna.
The plates in this portfolio are studies of plants in art from around the world over many centuries but his focus was on the images that best informed the art movement of the day. Art Noveau and Arts and Crafts.
The distinguishing ornamental characteristic of Art Nouveau is its undulating, asymmetrical line, often taking the form of flower stalks and buds, vine tendrils, insect wings, and other delicate and sinuous natural objects; the line may be elegant and graceful or infused with a powerfully rhythmic and whiplike force. In the graphic arts the line subordinates all other pictorial elements—form, texture, space, and colour—to its own decorative effect.