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Founded in 1962, this international art movement stressed play, active participation, and unusual materials. Robert Filliou (1926–1987) Ben Vautier (called "Ben") (b. 1935)
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism. In literature, the style originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.
A few writers continued the Decadent tradition, such as Octave Mirbeau, but Decadence was no longer a recognized movement, let alone a force in literature or art. [ 26 ] Beginning with the association of decadence with cultural decline, it is not uncommon to associate decadence in general with transitional times and their associated moods of ...
Albert Camus (1913–1960), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1957; Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979) Claude Simon (1913–2005), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1985; Romain Gary (1914–1980), winner of the Goncourt prize twice, 1956, and 1975 under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar; Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) Joseph Zobel (1915–2006) Maurice Druon (1918–2009)
His most famous painting is The Romans in their Decadence (1847), an enormous canvas, almost five meters by eight meters, crowded with scenes of decadence. He was a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts , and, like Gleyre, he taught a number of famous later painters, including Édouard Manet , Henri Fantin-Latour , and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes .
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 ...
Later on in America, the term realism took on various new definitions and adaptations once the movement hit the U.S. Surrealism and magical realism developed out of the French realist movement in the 1930s, and in the 1950s new realism developed. This sub-movement considered art to exist as a thing in itself opposed to representations of the ...
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.