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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 NouveauGeneral
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.
Learn more: 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 ArtGeneral 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) Go to:
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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
