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Édouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 – 28 July 1928) was a French painter and commercial artist. Under the pseudonym Paul Avril, he was an illustrator of erotic literature. [1] Avril was a soldier before starting his career in art; he was awarded with the Legion of Honour for his actions in the Franco-Prussian War. [2]
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
Pierre Adolphe Valette (13 October 1876 – 18 April 1942) was a French Impressionist painter who spent most of his career in England. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of Manchester, now in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery. Today, he is chiefly remembered as L. S. Lowry's tutor. [1]
When Le Lorrain was painting his palaces, his joy was not purer than the one I feel when I am drawing workshops. The abundance of monumental metallic structures makes me feel the joy of Le Piranèse, a joy that I taste when I am magnifying welders and grinder- or rolling mill-operators, who become in my paintings the magicians of the bright ...
Painting in Paris (4 C, 11 P) Photography in France (5 C, 24 P) ... Pages in category "French art" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
Henri Matisse, 1916-17, Le Peintre dans son atelier (The Painter and His Model), oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.jpg 839 × 1,271; 223 KB Henri Matisse, 1916-17, Nu (Lorette allongée sur fond rouge, Sleeping Nude on a Red Background), oil on canvas, 95 x 196 cm, Private collection.jpg ...
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20th-century French art developed out of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism that dominated French art at the end of the 19th century. The first half of the 20th century in France saw the even more revolutionary experiments of Cubism , Dada and Surrealism , artistic movements that would have a major impact on western, and eventually world ...