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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)
In the foreground of the left-hand side is a man with dogs, who was not mentioned in Courbet's letter to Champfleury. X-rays show he was painted later, but his role in the painting is important: he is an allegory of the then-current French Emperor, Napoleon III, identified by his famous hunting dogs and iconic twirled mustache. By placing him ...
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.
Auguste Herbin (29 April 1882 – 31 January 1960) was a French painter of modern art. He is best known for his Cubist and abstract paintings consisting of colorful geometric figures. He co-founded the groups Abstraction-Création and Salon des Réalités Nouvelles which promoted non-figurative abstract art .
French cubist artists (2 C, 38 P) S. Spanish cubist artists (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Cubist artists" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total.
He was a member of the Puteaux Group, an orphist offshoot of cubism led by Jacques Villon. His most famous work is The Conquest of the Air, 1913, which depicts himself and his brother outdoors with a balloon in the background. La Fresnaye enlisted in the French army in World War I but contracted tuberculosis and was discharged in 1918. [3]