Painting of the Czech-Moravian artist Alphonse Maria Mucha “Morning Star” made by all the rules of the Art Nouveau direction. This is a kind of Modern style, reinforced with decorative lines and ornaments. This work is not an exception and is saturated with floral stylized ornament around the entire contour of the frame. This is a fairly narrow canvas with a beautiful composition of the main character – the very Star. What strikes first? Cold rays of color of the edge. They are knocked out by trapezoidal figures from the general pattern of smooth lines and warm colors. The star is beautiful and feminine, but its light is inexorably gray.
The source of the glow lies in the open palm, or, like Shiva’s third eye, is encrusted in a wide forehead. Oriental features of the girl’s face speak of ethnicity. Apparently, this star did not fit into the beauty of the Slavic woman. Which contradicts the author’s reverent attitude to pagan Slavic culture.
The fly-selected background is powdered with the color of cinnamon or mustard powder. This is discouraging and does not give a clear definition of the time of day. If the morning, why misty and lifeless? The star slinks his way back into the night, giving way to bright colors. Her stole is battered by time and a long journey, it has acquired clay color and rigidity. The folds of the fabric are coarse, the edges are about to burst, revealing the final female camp. Star Alfonso is no longer young.
Age gives a languid and understanding look of the tracker, pleasant fullness, the absence of angular lines, carefully collected hair. However, the woman’s breasts are still resilient and purposely covered with a transparent fabric. Woman in the morning. A woman who has not slept all night. Its light is no longer so bright and the dawn is refracted. What is she looking for? Perhaps refuge, and therefore so peers into the distance, at the viewer, at us? The dull colors of the morning, the pale haze of fog, the calm palette of the picture lull and do not invigorate the sleepy mind. The oriental beauty soars and is ready to take a step beyond the limits of what gives a smack of the dry names Modern and Art Nouveau.
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