For example, when the careful, even tedious, art techniques of French neo-classicism became oppressive to artists living in more exuberant times, a stylistic revolution known as " Impressionism " vitalized brush strokes and color.

From Monet to Cézanne: late 19th-century French artists.

Category: French women artists

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

He bombarded French and Italian artists and writers with letters, and soon emerged as the Dada leader and master strategist.

The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

But perhaps the greatest example of graffiti artists infiltrating mainstream pop culture is by the French crew, 123Klan.

Between March and April 2009, 150 artists exhibited 300 pieces of graffiti at the Grand Palais in Paris — a clear acceptance of the art form into the French art world.

German artists and intellectuals, heavily influenced by the French Revolution and by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), turned to Romanticism after a period of Enlightenment.

Other artists depicted scenes, regardless of when they occurred, in classical dress and for a long time, especially during the French Revolution, history painting often focused on depictions of the heroic male nude.

The large production, using the finest French artists, of propaganda paintings glorifying the exploits of Napoleon, were matched by works, showing both victories and losses, from the anti-Napoleonic alliance by artists such as Goya and J. M. W.

The jury's severely worded rejection of Manet's painting appalled his admirers, and the unusually large number of rejected works that year perturbed many French artists.

The conventionalized scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank.

Joual () is the common name for the linguistic features of basilectal Quebec French that are associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal which has become a symbol of national identity for a large number of artists from that area.

Nearly two-thirds are by French artists, and more than 1, 200 are Northern European.

In the 1890s color lithography became greatly popular with French artists, Toulouse-Lautrec most notably of all, and by 1900 the medium in both color and monotone was an accepted part of printmaking, although France and the US have used it more than other countries.

Her first exposure to French artists Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, and Courbet was likely at the Paris World ’ s Fair of 1855.

The French art scene was in a process of change, as radical artists such as Courbet and Manet tried to break away from accepted Academic tradition and the Impressionists were in their formative years.

These paintings are classical, influenced by French classical artists such as Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin.

Picasso met Fernande Olivier, a model for sculptors and artists, in Paris in 1904, and many of these paintings are influenced by his warm relationship with her, in addition to his increased exposure to French painting.

The tempera medium was used by American artists such as the Regionalists Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton and his student Roger Medearis ; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Julia Thecla and Louise E. Marianetti ; Art Students League of New York instructors Kenneth Hayes Miller and William C. Palmer, Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Noel Rockmore, Edward Laning, Anton Refregier, Jacob Lawrence, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Robert Vickrey, Peter Hurd, and science fiction artist John Schoenherr, notable as the cover artist of Dune.

* As the century began, Paris was the artistic capital of the world, where both French and foreign writers, composers and visual artists gathered.

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

* 1630 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar ( d. 1718 )

Violette met Etienne Szabo, a French officer of Hungarian descent, at the Bastille Day parade in London in 1940.

* December 9 – Etienne Ozi, French composer ( d. 1813 )

* August 12 – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist ( b. 1725 )

* June – Etienne Brule, French explorer ( b. c. 1592 )

** Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman ( b. 1719 )

* December 8 – Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist ( b. 1683 )

* October 12 – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist ( d. 1810 )

* July 28 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar ( b. 1630 )

* June 23 – Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist ( d. 1745 )

Dr Louis François Etienne Bergeret ( 1814 – 1893 ) was a French hospital physician, and was the first to apply forensic entomology to a case.

The veteran French trainer Etienne Pollet had delayed his retirement for a year to guide Gyr, a son of his champion Sea-Bird, through his three-year-old season.

The plan has very limited Anglo-Saxon elements and is clearly influenced by the French work at Cluny, Bernay, and Caen and shares a similar floor plan to St Etienne and Lanfranc's Canterbury — although the poorer quality building material was a new challenge for Robert and he clearly borrowed some Roman techniques, learned while gathering material in Verulamium.

Between the arrivals of the two groups, the French captain Etienne de Vaugine came in 1764 and acquired a large domain east of Bayou Teche.

1822-1840 French Canadian trappers Etienne Provost, Francois Leclerc, and Antoinne Robidoux entered the Uintah basin by way of the Old Spanish trail and made their fortunes by trapping the many beaver and trading with the Uintah tribe.

Liberty Lake was named after an Etienne Edward Laliberte ( A French Canadian-1871 ), later he changed his name to Steve Liberty, a mail carrier and homesteader by the Lake.

An Etienne Baluze European Local History Prize was recently created ( summer 2007 ) by the " Société des Amis du musée du cloître " of Tulle, on the suggestion of the French historian Jean Boutier.

The French crown also repressed printing, and printer Etienne Dolet was burned at the stake in 1546.

As Etienne, he convinced Charles to go into hiding, but the young man was soon found out by French police detective Juve, truly obsessed with the capture of Fantômas.

The standard French infantry musket was also produced at Tulle, St. Etienne, Maubeuge Arsenal, and other sites.

Although Braid was the first to use the terms hypnotism, hypnotize and hypnotist in English, the cognate terms hypnotique, hypnotisme, hypnotiste had been intentionally used by the French magnetist Baron Etienne Félix d ' Henin de Cuvillers ( 1755 – 1841 ) at least as early as 1820.

Called La Agüera when it was a Spanish colonial possession, La Agüera came into existence in 1920, when Spain established an air base on the western side of the peninsula, just a few miles away from the French Fort Etienne ( now Nouadhibou ) on the eastern side of the same peninsula.

* La Volupté du Fouet ( The Pleasure of the Whip ) ( 1938 ) by Armand du Loup, illustrated by famous French artist Etienne Le Rallic under the alias R. Fanny.

Between July and November 1792 the Washington administration examined closely designs submitted by the French émigré architect Etienne Sulpice Hallet and Judge George Turner.