Mucha—inspired, he said, by Bernhardt’s flowing gestures, the “magic of her movements . . . a spiral principle”—set to work. Fusing Eastern and Greco-Roman influences, Mucha’s life ...

The works in this exhibition are based on my journey as an artist. The lines are the crucial elements in my art. When a line sits, it becomes a bull, when it is seductive it becomes a woman and ...

Mucha was a close observer of the world, drawing out the strange and fantastical. Art should project “moral harmonies,” he professed; it should “know how to charm.” In his pictures ...

Klimt repeated a spiralling line to create the flowing shape of the tree. It leads the viewer's eye from the middle of the painting out to the sides of the artwork, where we see human figures.

The Magic of Line,” an exhibition premiering at Washington’s Phillips Collection. Fittingly, “Gismonda” and “JOB” open the show, which next goes to the New Mexico Museum of Art and ...