Category: French Impressionist painters

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

Cassatt had befriended Degas and Pissarro years earlier when she joined Pissarro's newly formed French Impressionist group and gave up opportunities to exhibit in the United States.

He also dominated French Impressionist Cinema, along with Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein.

Jean Frédéric Bazille ( December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870 ) was a French Impressionist painter.

Category: French Impressionist painters

In 1904 the artist and writer Wynford Dewhurst wrote the first important study of the French painters published in English, Impressionist Painting: its genesis and development, which did much to popularize Impressionism in Great Britain.

French Impressionist Cinema is a term applied to a loosely defined group of films and filmmakers in France from 1919 – 1929, although these years are debatable.

French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L ’ Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff.

Paul Dukas is another French composer sometimes considered an Impressionist, but his style is perhaps more closely aligned to the late Romanticists.

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, founded in 1976, focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, as well as pieces by Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain.

Influenced by the French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy, he began to use colorful, unusual combinations of instruments in his orchestration.

Category: French Impressionist painters

While studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, he seems to have taken scant interest in the new Impressionist movement, nor was he impressed by what he perceived as the classical pretensions of the French Academy.

These 73 works include Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and French modern masterpieces, including important works by Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh and 32 works by Pablo Picasso.

As a result, at six, he was accepted into Isadora Duncan's dance school, where he learnt to love French Impressionist music.

French Neoclassical, Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, including works by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin, is displayed there in the southeastern corner.

Only in October 1994 the Hermitage officially announced that it had been secretly holding a major trove of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from German private collections.

Around 1874, Caillebotte met and befriended several artists working outside the official French Academy, including Edgar Degas and Giuseppe de Nittis, and attended ( but did not participate in ) the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874.

Category: French Impressionist painters

In 1905, he secured a place at the Manchester Municipal College of Art, where he studied under the French Impressionist artist Pierre Adolphe Valette.

He was admired by the American James McNeill Whistler, and he became an inspiration to the younger generation of French artists including Édouard Manet and the Impressionist painters.

" It shows Loti adapting some of the Impressionist techniques of contemporary painters, especially Monet, to prose, and is a classic of French literature.

Meanwhile Algerian painters, like Mohamed Racim or Baya, attempted to revive the prestigious Algerian past prior to French colonization, at the same time that they have contributed to the preservation of the authentic values of Algeria.

Category: French painters

Category: French painters

Category: French painters

Category: French painters

Jacques-Louis David was, in his time, regarded as the leading painter in France, and arguably all of Western Europe ; many of the painters honored by the restored Bourbons following the French Revolution had been David's pupils.

Category: French neoclassical painters

Category: French painters

Category: French painters

French painters who prepared the way for Impressionism include the Romantic colourist Eugène Delacroix, the leader of the realists Gustave Courbet, and painters of the Barbizon school such as Théodore Rousseau.

Category: French painters

Category: French painters

Category: French painters

Two further programmes followed on European painters ; Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse ( 2004 ) and Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi ( 2005 ), about the French artist Henri Matisse and Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi respectively.

Valéry served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

Category: French painters

Both Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 1699 – 1779 ) and Jean-Baptiste Greuze ( 1725 – 1805 ), were important French painters of the Rococo era who are considered Anti-Rococo.

French Orientalist painting was transformed by Napoleon's ultimately unsuccessful invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1798-1801, which stimulated great public interest in Egyptology, and was also recorded in subsequent years by Napoleon's court painters, especially Baron Gros, although the Middle Eastern campaign was not one on which he accompanied the army.

Gérôme was the precursor, and often the master, of a number of French painters in the later part of the century whose works were often frankly salacious, frequently featuring scenes in harems, public baths and slave auctions ( the last two also available with classical decor ), and responsible, with others, for " the equation of Orientalism with the nude in pornographic mode ".

Similar strains of fascination and repulsion convulsed their artists " Nonetheless, nudity and violence are more evident in British paintings set in the ancient world, and " the iconography of the odalisque ... the Oriental sex slave whose image is offered up to the viewer as freely as she herself supposedly was to her master-is almost entirely French in origin ", though taken up with enthusiasm by Italian and other painters.