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Abstract

This study examines ceramic works influenced by the Art Nouveau style that appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to resistance to the scientific technique and the Industrial Revolution. Among them, the purpose is to analyze the ceramic works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, who led Art Nouveau in the United States on the periphery of Art Nouveau style. At the time of Art Nouveau, artists conceived their art work through the motif of nature, and as it happened around the world, there were various ways to express its decorations. Tiffany presented a new perspective for art works on glass, stained glass, jewelry and ceramics. The research method is to analyze various ceramic works to examine his Art Nouveau characteristics. In the field of ceramics, he expressed a more realistic description than other Art Nouveau artists at the time, incorporating living nature into ceramics, creating in organic forms and selecting decorations of natural objects that match it with in details. In addition, he spent a lot of time studying the glaze part, making various monochromatic glazes to express colors representing nature, and expressing them in various ways. Tiffany’s method of decorative expression in glaze and sculpture is still influenced to many artists. Among his other works, glass was able to express various colors through making Favrile Glass and stained glass used a new manufacturing techniques and expressed nature schematically through various colors. In the case of jewelry, it expresses the sensibility of American design and you can see the growth and colors of the nature. This study aims to understand the ceramic expression method applied with the Art Nouveau style inspired by nature, and based on this, it is intended to present the possibilities of expanding the area of various ceramic expression methods and new expressions.