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 Alphonse Mucha
(1860-1939), Czech-French poster designer and painter. One of the
leading artists of the art nouveau period, he created poster designs
characterized by sinuous "whiplash" lines, flowers on thin,
twining stems, women with long, flowing hair, and elegantly attenuated
lettering. As regular poster designer for the French actor Sarah
Bernhardt, Mucha created theater bills for her plays in the 1890s, as
well as producing advertisements for commercial products, such as his
famous poster for Job cigarettes, and exhibitions. He also designed
window displays and exotic interiors. After 1913 Mucha turned to
painting, devoting himself chiefly to large historical canvases. Best
known among his paintings is the series The Slav Epic, painted
during the 1910s and 1920s.
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