Mucha — The Arts
Dance, Painting, Poetry and Music: Mucha's 1898 set, each art paired with a time of day.
4 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
The set
The Arts, published by Champenois in 1898, is the most inventive of Mucha's sets. Instead of attributes like a brush or a lyre, each art is paired with a moment of the day and a mood in nature: Dance with the morning wind among leaves, Painting with a flower in full daylight, Poetry with the evening star, Music with birdsong under a moon. The circular haloes behind each figure are the device Mucha used again in his best posters.
What's here
The four panels, Dance, Painting, Poetry and Music, each as its own print.
Hanging the set
A row of four in a study or a music room, 12×18 or 16×24. Dance and Music make the natural pair if there is room for only two.