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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.
The term is most often associated with the following artists, though it could equally apply to most of the movements leading up to cubism. Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) Henri Rousseau ("le Douanier") (1844–1910)
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
This is a list of French painters sorted alphabetically and by the century in which the painter was most active. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Henry Valensi (17 September 1883 - 21 April 1960) was a French Cubist painter, animator, film director and art theoretician. He founded the musicalism movement and created 'La Symphonie printanière' (Spring Symphony), a unique abstract animation or "cinépeinture" (film-painting), a print of which was acquired in 2013 by the musée national d'art moderne in Paris and exhibited there from 23 ...
Georges Valmier (11 April 1885 – 25 March 1937) was a French painter.His work encompassed the great movements in the modern history of painting, starting with Impressionism in his early years, then Cubism which he discovered when he was around 25 years old, and finally Abstractionism from 1921.
Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. Early life