The Art Nouveau meets Tattooing

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Delicate realistic forms are made sinuous, elegantly elongated and shaded in colour, in the Neo Traditional style looking at Art Nouveau to capture its beauty.

Lea, Black Ship Tattoo, Barcelona, Spain
Lea, Black Ship Tattoo, Barcelona, Spain

In this gallery we present a selection of tattoos by top international artists in which Neo Traditional ink meets New Art.

Lorena Morato, Golden Times Atelier, Cologne, Germany
Lorena Morato, Golden Times Atelier, Cologne, Germany

Lightness, delicate colours that remind us of watercolour, meet powerful outlines, constructing images that look like sculptures with defined decoration details like flowers, pearls, friezes and feathers.

Justin Hartman, The Grand Reaper, San Diego, USA
Justin Hartman, The Grand Reaper, San Diego, USA

Female subjects, especially faces, are among the favourite subjects of this genre in which the tattoo artist’s skill emerges in playing with confident strokes and nuances of colour, able to render the softness of hair, the shapes of the face, the gaze, creating figures that resemble 19th century cameos and become noble and delicate at the same time.

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