Art in Focus Tour - Alphonse Mucha's Inspiration and Process
Schedule
Wed Dec 10 2025 at 01:00 pm to 01:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL, United States, Florida 33432 | Boca Raton, FL
For this session, Curator Kelli Bodle traces how Alphonse Mucha turned staged photographs into finished designs, then links that working method to a late 19th-century Japanese cloisonné vase and the poster Precious Stones: Emerald. Mucha routinely directed models, photographed them in costume, and mined those images for pose, proportion, and ornament.
In Emerald, look for the tight palette, the Byzantine-like halo, and the serpent woven through the model’s hair, all keyed to the gemstone’s color and mood. The session considers how cloisonné’s enamel surfaces, bird-and-flower motifs, and jewel tones echo in Mucha’s graphic language, using examples of Japanese vases shown alongside his works in Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line.
Image Left: Alphonse Mucha, "Model posing with a Japanese vase at Mucha's studio in the rue du Val-de-Grâce" (detail), Paris, c. 1898, photographic panel (c) Mucha Trust 2022
Image Right: Alphonse Mucha, "Precious Stones: Emerald" (detail), 1900, color lithograph. Courtesy of the Mucha Foundation
Where is it happening?
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