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Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality (broken down by genre), see French writers category .
The following is a chronological list of artistic movements or periods in France indicating artists who are sometimes associated or grouped with those movements. See also European art history, Art history and History of Painting and Art movement.
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.
20th-century French literature is literature written in French from 1900 to 1999. For literature made after 1999, see the article Contemporary French literature. Many of the developments in French literature in this period parallel changes in the visual arts. For more on this, see French art of the 20th century.
Le Corbusier, 1922, Nature morte verticale (Vertical Still Life), oil on canvas, 146.3 cm × 89.3 cm (57.6 by 35.2 inches), Kunstmuseum Basel. Purism, referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918 and 1925 that influenced French painting and architecture.
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 ...
[3]: d.j. Due to his reluctance to sell his work, when he died he still owned 1,200 paintings and watercolors and 10,000 drawings which he left to the state. [ 1 ] : 110 p. The Musée national Gustave Moreau at 14 rue de la Rochefoucauld ( 9th arrondissement ), opened to the public on 14 January 1903, with his former student Georges Rouault ...
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)