Editing Alphonse Mucha (section)

==''Documents Decoratifs'' and teaching==
Mucha's next project was a series of seventy-two printed plates of watercolors of designs, titled ''Documents Decoratifs'', which were published in 1902 by the Librarie Centrale des Beaux-arts.  They represented ways that floral, vegetal and natural forms could be used in decoration and decorative objects.  In about 1900 he had begun to teach at the [[Academy Colarossi]], where he himself had been a student when he first arrived in Paris.  His course was precisely described in the catalog: "The object of the Mucha course is to permit the student to have the necessary knowledge for artistic decoration, applied to decorative panels, windows, porcelain, enamels, furniture, jewelry, posters, etc."{{Sfn|Thiébaut|2018|pages=148}}
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File:01 mucha documentsdecoratifs 1901.jpg|Cover of ''Documents Decoratifs'' (1901)
File:30 mucha documentsdecoratifs 1901.jpg|Pattern from ''Documents Decoratifs'' (1901)
File:33 mucha documentsdecoratifs 1901.jpg|Pattern from ''Documents Decoratifs''  (1901)
File:59 mucha documentsdecoratifs 1901.jpg|Ideas for dish ware in ''Documents Decoratifs'' (1901)
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