The original image was captured by the immensely talented :mehmeturgut: Mehmet Turgut [link] and the original can be seen at this. [link]



This work is cut paper collage, it is paper within paper (not on paper) to make one plane, there is really no foreground or background because I tend to work in terms of shapes rather than lines.

Alphonse Maria Mucha [link] was born in Bohemia (Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic) in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1890 where he became the star of the poster-art movement under the patronage of Sarah Bernhardt. After World War I he returned to Czechoslovakia and became the father of a slavic arts and crafts movement which combined elements of art nouveau with classic national themes. In addition to commercial art, jewellery design, interior decoration, sculpture and stage design, Mucha experimented with lettering and calligraphy to produce excellent source material for unique typefaces. Mucha's style is widely considered synonymous with French Art Nouveau and he is one of the most imitated artists and designers of all time.

Initiated 1898, Paris
founder of Czech Freemasonry
Sovereign Grand Commander
Supreme Council
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Czechoslovakia