mucha

say what you like about mucha - and they do in a strangely poor article in paris review - but you'd be on thin ice if you were going to argue there weren't some mad skillz on view. i'm not the world's biggest fan of figurative painting but i love these, i love their lighting, their construction and mucha's take no prisoners vision. i remember seeing apotheosis of the slavs years and years ago and just being blown away by it