Alphonse Mucha (1860 - 1939) Czech

Mucha was a brilliant draftsman, and his work personified the Art Nouveau movement.  Posters of lovely young females figures draped in Classical gowns, surrounded by birds, flowers, swirling patterns, shaped elegant hairdos.  He also mad sculpture, and later on, designed many postage stamps for the Czech Republic.  The flatness of his beauty is most arresting quality - or non-quality - since today we look at his work as mere posters, not high art.  That was the Art Nouveau movement.

La Dame Aux Camille (Sarah Bernhardt) 1896
Out of his many posters, I picked this one to convey the beauty of colors and flowers and approached to design, mixed with the tragic story we know as Camille.  She is a beautiful courtesan of 19th Paris who is dying of TB.  Sarah Berhardt played the role on stage, and was famous for it, in part because of this poster.
The actress is wearing an elegant dress, in profile.  She is surrounded by her Camilla, her white flowers, Mucha emphasizes her fragile beauty by putting her figure in a gilded frame of tiny stars. Around her head the pink color winds down and there is a hand holding a Camille plant at the bottom.  Theatre la Renaissance far at the bottom complete the poster.

JOB (1898)
The infamous JOB beauty scene a hundred times in "head shops" of the 1960's and 1970's. She is a poster beauty advertising JOB rolling papers.  JOB appears in large letters, and the lady holding the papers with fine brunet hair pulled up to give her a classical look, is in a circle of  flowery twists, and her body is in a seated, twist, holding the papers in one hand, and smoking or letting the smoke float from a lit rolled cigarette in a stylized drift. She is wearing a lilt orange dress and it pulls the viewers eye in to notice the JOB papers in her hands.  The lady looks on to the smoke with mild disinterest.