In Britain, industrialisation created social and political gaps. This threatened the stability of the nation. The industrial revolution brought wealth to the country. Art Nouveau celebrated the new materials and technologies and mass production.
Arthur Mackmurdo
Sculptures were made around the idea of new technology and materials.
Alphonse Mucha
The female form was presented a lot more in painting and sculpture; the women in the artworks were also represented in a sexual manner, with nudity and often eye contact that engaged with the audience more.
Jules Cheret - Sex Sells
Advertisements started using more erotic presentations of women to sell products.
The French adopted the Rococo style, and Art Nouveau was influenced by this visual language. It evolved from Rococo.
A whiplash movement of marks and flow of lines was used in arts. This style was a metaphor for society changing and on the move.
Agathon Leonard
The references to wings and flight resembled the change that came with art Nouveau.
In the 19th century, the west became obsessed with Japanese art styles.
Kitagawa Utamaro
Tolouse Lautrec
36 views of the eifel tower - Henri Riviere
36 views of mount fuji - Hokusai
Europeans bought Japanese prints based on the everyday life. Also tales of mythology and heroes. In Japan, love and sex were a common part of lifestyle and many Japanese erotic prints were created which became part of the european underground pornography scene.
Hokusai
Flowers were used in Japanese symbolism as a reference to one's sexual lifestyle. A flower with open buds was seen as a metaphor for a promiscuous person, and closed buds represented virginity.
Paul Berthou - Folies Bergeres
Armchair - Rupert Carabin
Cats had a symbolism of sexual references.
In British textiles, curvy lines were used as a form of erotic language.
Archibald Knox
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