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Post-impressionism through modern art, encompasses many
styles and well known artists: Van Gogh, Matisse, Cézanne. Below you will find
major French artists arranged chronologically within periods and styles with the
books available. If books cover an entire period or a collection of
artists of that time, they will be found under the "general" heading
at the top of that section. For French art from other periods, Art
Directory; for posters and fine prints Art by French Artists.
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau
General
Paul Signac
Paul Cézanne
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Georges Seurat 1859-1891
With Paul Signac he started the Neo-Impressionist technique of
Pointillism, painting with small dabs instead of long strokes. He differed from
Impressionism by developing a more formal type of composition rather than
capturing a fleeting moment.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who joined Paul Gauguin in
Paris and painted with him in Arles, Provence. Intensely emotional about his
art, he cut off part of his ear after a quarrel, entered an asylum in 1889 and
committed suicide a year later.
Paul Gauguin and The Nabis
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Edouard Vuillard
Pierre-Cecile Puvis de Chavannes
Gustave Moreau
Henri Rousseau 'Le Douanier' (the customs official) 1844-1910
Self taught naive artist. He painted detailed images from
nature to Paris.
Aristide Maillol (sculptor)
Hector Guimard 1867-1942 Entrances for the Paris Métro
20th-Century French Art
General
Henri Matisse
Georges Rouault
Georges Braque
Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Marc Chagall (Russian painted in Paris after 1910)
Marcel Duchamp
Fernand Leger
Piet Mondrian (Dutch painter in Paris after 1912)
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Arp (sculptor)
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Art Nouveau in Fin-De-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte
Edouard Vuillard
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
