Mucha Nouveau The Arts Music Poster
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by Alphonse Mucha

In his book, Alphonse Mucha: The Complete Posters and Panels, Jack Rennert states that 'When it comes to personifying abstract comments through beautiful women, Mucha's inventiveness never flags. Here is abundant proof in the strikingly posed [muse] representing . . . Painting . . . The Mucha hair is in its glory . . . Mucha's other habitual indulgence, the circular halo, assumes in this case the shape of a crescent filled with secondary circles'.