| 释义 |
New Art, new art
= art nouveau (art n. VI. f).
1903W. B. Yeats Let. 14 May in Florence Farr, Shaw, Yeats (1946) 38, I have had a letter from the editor of the ‘Daily News’ asking permission to interview me on the Theatre and the New Art. 1906M. H. Baillie-Scott Houses & Gardens i. 13 A bizarre striving after originality and eccentricity of design,..posing as the ‘new art’. 1909Cottage Furniture (Heal & Son) 1 The ‘new art’ overmantel smothered in rococo photograph frames. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay iii. i. 266 Beautiful jam-pots! Get one of those new art chaps to design all the things they make ugly now. 1912L. Weaver House & its Equipment 35 The superficial clevernesses of the New Art movement. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister Street II. iii. vi. 617 New Art flower vases. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock i. iii. 46 He touched a little buzzer, the New Art doors opened. 1969J. Gloag Short Dict. Furniture (ed. 2) 469 New Art was characterized by the free use of naturalistic motifs: chairs, tables, cabinets and bedsteads were contorted by writhing plants, exuberant blossoms, and intricate arabesques, while surfaces were punctuated by inserted patches of hammered copper and coloured enamel, and pierced by heart-shaped apertures. |