Maurice pillard verneuil biography of william
Maurice Pillard Verneuil was a French artist and decorator in the Art nouveau movement....
Maurice Pillard Verneuil was a French artist and decorator in the Art nouveau movement.
Posted on behalf of Fionnuala Deasy, former staff member of the V&A (Trainee Service Assistant in the National Art Library 2017 – 2018).
The reading rooms of the National Art Library may look ornately Victorian, but within the shelves of our collections we have wonderful objects from every artistic time period.
One of these fantastic objects is a masterpiece of the Art Deco movement, Kaléidoscope, ornements abstraits; quatre-vingt-sept motifs en vingt planches (1926). This vividly coloured portfolio of prints by French artists Ad.
and M. P. Verneuil contains 87 different designs for textiles. Each page offers an exciting explosion of colour, with patterns composed of repeated geometric shapes. The asymmetrical arrangement adds to the brilliance of the variegated designs.
This style is characteristic of Art Deco, a global art movement that took its name from a world’s fair, held in 1925 in Paris, titled ExpositionInternationale des arts décoratifs et industriels moderne