On Christmas Eve 1894, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), a Czech junior designer working alone in a Parisian print shop, received a rush order from actress Sarah Bernhardt for a poster advertising her ...

Alongside Mucha’s work, the Poster House is showing “Designing Through the Wall: Cyan in the 1990s.” Cyan is a graphic-design collective founded by Detlef Fiedler and Daniela Haufe, in 1992.

Best known for his decorative posters of actresses, the art nouveau master blurred the line between fine art and advertising. The show makes the case that Mucha's commercial output wasn't a ...

The Magic of Line" opens at Vladem Contemporary and runs in conjunction with "Eugenie Shonnard: Breaking the Mold" at the New ...

Had Mucha confined himself to the Bernhardt posters, his legacy would be less ambiguous. Instead, he became the first artist embraced, indeed idolised, by the world of commercial advertising.

Mucha, whose output was primarily decorative panels and advertisements, grew popular after designing the poster for the 1894 Greek tragedy Gismonda, a four-act play featuring actress Sarah ...

But the Mucha Museum opening this month in central Prague has been created partly to “dynamite the idea that Alphonse was just an affichiste” — a poster artist — John Mucha, the artist’s ...

Mucha’s poster-based fame led to some actual success in the art world at the time: he was invited to show his work in the Salon des Cent exhibition in 1896, and then, in 1897, to have a major ...

Around the time this 1899 poster for Moet champagne was made, Mucha won a well-paid commission to decorate Bosnia-Herzegovina's pavilion at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.