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Product: Mucha Painting Playing Cards (2x55)
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Description: The remarkable invention of the mankind, one of the most habitual subjects of our daily life. At the same time the pack is a remarkable sample of an applied drawing, both an unusual souvenir and a fine gift. The collecting of playing cards becomes more and more popular. It serves as a subject of entertainment for visitors and members of the household. Original and non-standard drawings are presented. Playing cards are made on a special cardboard, or on a special plastic. The varnished covering provides high-quality sliding and stability. History: Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), the Czech schedule, the painter, the master of arts and crafts. In 1888-1910 worked in France. Numerous posters in which the vegetative ornament is widely used, book illustrations, decorative lists (the House of meetings in Prague, 1910) have brought the essential contribution to the formation of the European art of a modernist style. Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860-1939) was a prolific Moravian painter of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and a key figure in the Art Nouveau movement. His style of painting influenced an entire generation of painters, graphic artists, draughtsmen and designers and in the minds of many, his work epitomizes the Art Nouveau. He himself came to resent his fame as an artist of the utilitarian, believing that true art should be elevated and epic. Alfons Mucha was born on July 24, 1860, in the town of Ivancice, Moravia, then part of Austro-Hungary. His father was a court usher,
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