FRENCH ART FROM THE MIDDLE-AGES TO THE PRESENT
THE MIDDLE-AGES I. II. Romanesque(9/10thc) Gothic (12thc) 16 century Leonardo Da Vinci(Italian-French art); Bruegel (Flemish art) Architecture and Art in France: Mannerism (Fontainebleau School) BAROQUE/CLASSICISM 17th century
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Bourges cathedral Notre Dame (Paris); Chartres Cathedral, France
THE RENAISSANCE
Art-taste-style: rules of etiquette; Louis XIV and court I. Baroque Nicolas Poussin, The Holy Family on the Steps, 1648 Latour The New Born, 1640 II. 18 CENTURY I. II. 19 CENTURY I. II. III. Romanticism Realism Impressionism Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1827 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 Poster Art Sculpture Art Nouveau (1900): Horta (Belgian); Toulouse – Lautrec, Mucha (Czech in Paris) Rodin, Camille Claudel, Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty)
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Classicism in architecture Versailles (Louis XIV)
Rococo (French late Baroque) Fragonard, Happy Accidents of the Swing, 1767 Neo-classicism Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
20th CENTURY: The School of Paris, Avant-Garde until World War II: Modernism: abstraction and color I. Fauvism : Matisse Picasso (Spaniard in Paris), Braque Marcel Duchamp René Magritte, Paul Delvaux (in Belgium)
II. Cubism: III. Dada: IV. Surrealism:
POST- World War II: Post-Modernism, Contemporary Art : Jean Helion, Niki de St Phalle (New Realism), Jean Tinguely, Vasarely (Opt Art), Christo (installation art), PEI (modern architecture e.g. Louvre Pyramid)