 Mucha himself rejected the term "Art Nouveau" for his work, saying that "art cannot be new".He moved to Prague in 1910 to pursue more serious historical painting, a cycle of large-scale works called The Slav Epic.Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923) was another important early Art Nouveau figure, whose work focused more on ordinary people and life in Montmartre, and political causes; besides making posters for cabarets, he illustrated socialist and anarchist publications.