At the débuts of all the revolutionary styles of painting that now seem merely to make up the lovely late-nineteenth-century phenomenon of modern French art, from Monet’s Impressionism ...

François Bard is a contemporary French figurative painter. His monumental oil paintings usually depict dramatically lit men’s torsos with their heads and legs cropped out of the frame. “It’s important ...

Divisionism was an artistic technique that relied on constructing images from small primary-colored brushstrokes that would ...

Author, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris and the Making of ... An important book which sheds new light on modern formations of gender, fashion, consumption, art and national identity." --Whitney ...

Matisse and Renoir defined the decorative and coloristic approach to painting for modern European artists. Modern French painting became an expressive arrangement of color and form across the flat ...