The swirls at the end of the poster seems to have a celtic influence from the celtic symbols which had swirls, many celtic symbols such as swirls can be seen in the secessionist art and it played a big role. There is also flatness in colour which is also inspirational from Art Nouveau. The poster shows an influence from Art Nouveau even in the sense of subject matter with it being a woman portrayed with long swirling hair and floral objects in her hair.

This poster or cover as you could call it was designed for the Frommes Calendar for the 14th Exhibition of the Vienna Secession created by Kolo Moser. They wanted to appraise high end craftsmanship as well and create beautiful decorative objects for people to appreciate and they worked with the motto “To the Age its Art, to Art its Freedom.” The style of the secessionists took inspiration from the arts and crafts movement and had been huge admirers of Charles Rennie Mackintoshes work which they also had taken influence to create their own version of their forms which were very graphical in terms of layout and was based on symmetry, geometry, negative space and flat colours similar to art nouveau but more from the aspect of the arts and crafts movement. They built a new exhibition building for their group and others who wished to join it called the Secession building which was designed by Josef Maria Olbrich. They dropped out of this old societal group and formed a new group named the Secessionists to protest and fight against the old style and bring out something completely modern. The movement had been sparked by the artists dissatisfaction with the old style neo-classicism which had a holding grasp on the city because of this the artists grew anxious with the Academy of the arts and the salons because of the fact that they wished to stay with the traditional style of the time and the artists were hungry for something new and modern. This movement had come to appear in 1897 and was formed by what they had called themselves the Secessionists which was a group of artists with the main leader who had formed it who was Gustav Klimt.

Vienna secession characteristics