Victor Horta (1861-1947) was a Belgian architect. Victor began studying architecture at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He went to Paris from 1887 to 1880 and worked in the studio of the interior decorator Jules Debuyson.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French artist. He is heard along with artist such as Van Gogh as one of the most famous artists during the Post-Impressionism period.

Victor used the Art Nouveau  which was a style developed in Europe and North America at the end of the 19th century it was a style of natural forms that were translated into high contrast shapes and patterns. They were very appealing and reflected traditions on history and the classics. In his architectural work he had the stairway in the Tassel House as his main focus. The spacial movement created an organic flow to both the exterior and interior.

 

Henri also used the Art Nouveau and his became the most expression pieces. Commercial printing was when graphics and color could be combined and reproduced with losing its quality. In his piece called La Goulue he uses flat color and line but the way he works it, it creates a strong visual impact by having the solid black crowd and the dancer against each other. By doing what he did with the simple colors and line he causes the paper to become a part of the drawing. Here you also see typography and it flows nicely with the images like the way he put moulin rouge, rather than just being put on the page.

These two images struck out to me the most while reading through the chapter. Both are from the time period of the Art Nouveau. Also both have sort of like a hidden blend of images in them that make them  very famous. The stairway has the natural organic vine like that flows all around, which I find absolutely gorgeous. In the print the use of the solid black crowd creates a spacial distance and makes the dancer stand out showing that she is the importance in the print. With these similar comparisons i found it interesting because just looking at them you would never think that these works would be similar.