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The Evolution of Art in the 1890s

Arneuvo is a movement for the first kind of Ruskin's idea of elevating craft. The earliest sort of Arneuvo buildings I think are the Belgian ones. They're getting this shift from arts and crafts very stripped back to more fruity historicist. It quite quickly evolves into this highly plastic sinuous line curves of glass, industrial materials,. Very lution expressive shapes like really outlandish kind of an exciting form.

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