FRENCH ART FROM THE MIDDLE-AGES TO THE PRESENT
THE MIDDLE-AGES
I.
Romanesque(9/10thc)
Bourges cathedral
II.
Gothic (12thc)
Notre Dame (Paris); Chartres Cathedral, France
THE RENAISSANCE
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16 century (Italian influence & models from Antiquity: Greek/Romans)
Leonardo Da Vinci(Italian-French art); Bruegel (Northern, Flemish art)
Architecture and Art in France: Mannerism (Fontainebleau School)
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17 CENTURY -The Classical Age :
I.
Baroque
H. Rigaud, Louis XIV, the Sun King
Nicolas Poussin, The Holy Family on the Steps, 1648
Latour The New Born, 1640
II.
Classicism in architecture Versailles (Louis XIV)
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18 CENTURY
I.
Roccoco
Fragonard, Happy Accidents of the Swing, 1767
II.
Neo-classicism Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784 /
Napoléon
19th CENTURY
I.
Romanticism
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830
II.
Realism
Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1827
III.
Impressionism
Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette1876; Manet, Degas;
Monet, Nympheas,1898; Berthe Morisot, Villa at the Seaside,
1874
IV.
Post-impressionism-- abstraction, more color: precursor of modern art
Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte, 1886; Cézanne,
The Basket of Apples, 1895, Van Gogh, Gauguin.
Architecture
Art Nouveau (1900): Victor Horta (Belgian);
Poster Art
Toulouse – Lautrec, Mucha (Czech in Paris)
Sculpture
Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, F-A Bartholdi (Statue of
Liberty), Gustave Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower, 1889)
20th CENTURY: The School of Paris, Modernism
Avant-Garde until World War II: abstraction and color
I.
Fauvism :
Matisse
II. Cubism:
Picasso (Spaniard in Paris), Braque
III. Dada:
Marcel Duchamp
IV. Surrealism:
René Magritte, Paul Delvaux (mvt is strong in Belgium)
POST- World War II: Post-Modernism, Contemporary Art :
Jean Helion, Nikki de St Phalle (New Realism), Jean Tinguely,
Vasarely (Opt Art), Christo (installation art), PEI (modern
architecture e.g. Louvre Pyramid)