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William morris fisher art nouveau fanciful imitation of nature?


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Nature, anyway, is so often an inspiration... the exceptions are when it is not. The important thing is the interpretation of nature: peaceful, stormy, a whole-all,...

It was perhaps the biggest influence in Art Nouveau, but I wouldn't say its imitation. Art Nouveau is more about fussion, everything linking together, so also men's world & nature, and the search for beauty.
Even nature is fussioned with itself, and then we get creatures like a cross between dragonfly/ fish/ woman/ beetle/ flower as in Lalique's work :-)

But William Morris, actually, is Arts and Crafts, not really Art Nouveau. Though almost the same period.