"The French call this art style ""nature morte"". What do we call it?"
"Sweden responsible for promoting national and international modernism between 1915 and 1925. The painting would eventually be exhibited at Galerie Philippe Reichenbach, Houston, where it was acquired in 1960. In 2008 ""Nature morte"" (titled ""Compotier et cruche décorée de cerfs"") was auctioned at Sotheby's in New York. ""Nature morte"", signed ""JMetzinger"" (lower right), is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 93.5 x 66.5 cm (36 3/4 by 26 1/4 in.), representing a still life. It is an interior scene depicting various objects including a compotier filled with fruit, a carafe, pears, a cup, a vase of flowers, and a"
"the French translation “nature morte” which directly translates to “dead nature.” By adding “vivante,” which implies “fast moving action and a certain lively quality,” onto the end of that, Dali was essentially naming this piece “dead nature in movement.” This plays into his theme of Nuclear Mysticism which combined elements of art, physics, and science. The theory, as well as the term, “Nuclear Mysticism” was coined by Dali himself. In the late 1940s and early 1950s Dali started to “return to his Catholic roots following World War II.” Nuclear mysticism is composed of different theories by Dali that combine science,"
"in Greece and abroad, with guidance from important artists he continued until 1964. The resulting sensory perception in this first period of his work is the series of Nature morte, which were exposed for the first time in France at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in Salon d'Automne at Grand Palais, at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and elsewhere. Many art critics have studied his paintings and in the newspaper ""Beaux-Arts"" M.Sauriere wrote: """"...la belle nature morte aux oiseaux noirs de Stephopoulos..."""" In the second period he was evidently in search of freedom. This search is"
"Naturalism (theatre) Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create an illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies. Interest in naturalism especially flourished with the French playwrights of the time, but the most successful example is Strindberg’s play ""Miss Julie"", which was written with the intention to abide by both his own particular version of naturalism, and also the version described by the French novelist and literary theoretician, Émile Zola. Zola’s term for naturalism is ""la nouvelle"
"- Musée National d'Art Moderne - Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg): ""Vue de Sienne"" 1907 - Palais de Tokyo: ""Nature morte à la Langouste"" 1930 - Musées de la ville de Paris: - Maison Victor Hugo de Paris: ""La maison Victor Hugo à Bruxelles"" 1933 - Musée Toulouse-Lautrec d'Albi: - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes: ""Nature morte au faisan"" 1928 - Musée de la ville de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: ""Les Tuileries"" - Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts: ""L'omnibus Bastille-Madeleine"" 1906 - National Museum of Serbia : ""Nature morte aux fleurs"" 1935 - Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh: ""La nature morte au violon"" 1929 - Birmingham"
"a spontaneous way, works that showed his talent. The French writer André Breton learned of these masks and showed them to the French painter Jean Dubuffet, who bought nine of them. Dubuffet went on to become the first theoretician of the new art form (what we now call outsider art), which he called ""art brut"". According to him, this was art produced by people who were not professionals, who operated outside the conventional aesthetic norms, and who did not belong to an artistic milieu. Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve (Bordeaux 1863 - Bordeaux, April 1934) was a French artist and mosaicist"
"artificially wild and irrational nature. One also finds in some of these gardens—curious ruins of temples—called ""follies"". The last half of the eighteenth century saw a turn to Neoclassicism in France, that is to say a conscious use of Greek and Roman forms and iconography. This movement was promoted by intellectuals like Diderot, in reaction to the artificiality and the decorative essence of the ""rocaille"" style. In painting, the greatest representative of this style is Jacques-Louis David, who, mirroring the profiles of Greek vases, emphasized the use of the profile. His subject matter often involved classical history such as the"
"Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, that was most popular between 1890 and 1910. A reaction to the academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of plants and flowers. English uses the French name Art Nouveau (new art). The style is related to, but not identical with, styles that emerged in many countries in Europe at about the same time: in Austria it is known as ""Secessionsstil"" after ""Wiener Secession""; in Spanish ""Modernismo""; in Catalan"
"is derived from the French word ""rocaille"" meaning shell. It emerged in France and spread throughout the world in the late 17th and early 18th century. This type of art style was marked by asymmetry, naturalism, pastel colors and delicate shell-like and watery forms. The French built town houses which adopted this type of style; they became intimate areas for community gathering and entertainment. Ducreux adopted this style in her work. The colors in her portraits were very light and gentle to the eye. These portraits were also asymmetric, often having the subject pose and stare off to the side"
"Living Still Life Living Still Life (French: Nature Morte Vivante"")"" is a painting by the artist Salvador Dalí. Dali painted this piece during a period that he called “Nuclear Mysticism.” Nuclear Mysticism is composed of different theories that try to show the relationships between quantum physics and the conscious mind. The different theories are composed of elements that range from “Catalan philosophers” to “classicism, pop art, and nuclear physics.” The painting, done in 1956, currently resides at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The name ""Nature Morte Vivante"" translates in English to “living still life.” It comes from"
"practice of shaping living trees has several names. Practitioners may have their own name for their techniques, so a standard name for the various practices has not emerged. Richard Reames calls the practice ""arborsculpture""; Dan Ladd calls his work ""tree sculpture""; Nirandr Boonnetr's work is called ""living furniture""; Christopher Cattle calls his works ""grown up furniture"" and ""grown stools""; while Peter Cook and Becky Northey call their work ""Pooktre"". The following names are also encountered: In 1516, Jean Perréal painted an allegorical image, ""La complainte de nature à l'alchimiste errant"", (""The Lament of Nature to the Wandering Alchemist""), in which"
"image, ""la complainte de nature à l'alchimiste errant"" (The Lament of Nature to the Wandering Alchemist), in which a winged figure with arms crossed, representing Nature, sits on a tree stump with branches that have been intricately shaped, with a fire burning in its base, conversing with an alchemist in an ankle-length coat, standing outside of his stone-laid shoreline laboratory. Live resprouting shoots emerge from either side of the tree stump seat to form a fancifully twined and pleached two-story-tall chair back. His style is noted as keeping to the elegant French tradition, as well as a touch of Flemish"
"the French entries to claim the internationally coveted ""Grand Prix de Champagne"". The exposition also was the showcasing of another Russian entry, the famous matryoshka doll (Russian nesting doll). The Art Nouveau (""New Art"") style began to develop in the 1880s and became fashionable in Europe and the United States during the 1890s. The art form takes inspiration from the natural world, drawing references from botanical studies and deep sea organisms. Fluid twisting, curving lines and a ""whiplash"" effect are the trademarks of the natural art form. The art form took shape in works ranging from painting to sculpture and"
"forest dwellers formed by bending trees together – a myth which would resurface much later in a more positive sense in the writings of the German Romantic movement. ""Gothic art"" was strongly criticized by French authors such as Boileau, La Bruyère, Rousseau, before becoming a recognized form of art, and the wording becoming fixed. Molière would famously comment on Gothic: <poem> The besotted taste of Gothic monuments, These odious monsters of ignorant centuries, Which the torrents of barbary spewed forth. </poem> In its beginning, Gothic art was initially called ""French work"" (""Opus Francigenum""), thus attesting the priority of France in"
"he presides is working to renovate the pedestal, funds for which the French state must eventually decide to appropriate through the Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles. L'Âme de la France L'Âme de la France (""The Soul of France"") is the name given by the French sculptor Carlo Sarrabezolles to three identical monumental statues that he executed in three different materials during the interwar period, the first in plaster in 1921, the second in stone in 1922, and the last in bronze in 1930. 3.2 metres tall, they represent a female warrior with naked breasts raising her arms toward the sky."
"by naturist organisations that eroticism and blatant sexuality have no place in naturism and are, in fact, antithetical to its ideals. Reasons that have at times been given: Walt Whitman American writer, A Sun-bathed Nakedness: Henry David Thoreau, ""In wildness is the preservation of the world."", Walking: Naturism was part of a literary movement in the late 1800s (see the writings of André Gide) which also influenced the art movements of the time specifically Henri Matisse and other Fauve painters. This movement was based on the French concept of ""joie de vivre"", the idea of reveling freely in physical sensations"
"Figuration Libre Figuration Libre (""Free Figuration"") is a French art movement of the 1980s. It is the French equivalent of Bad Painting and Neo-expressionism in America and Europe, Junge Wilde in Germany and Transvanguardia in Italy. The term was coined by Fluxus artist Ben Vautier. The group was formed in 1981 by Robert Combas, Remi Blanchard, François Boisrond and Hervé Di Rosa. Other figures include Richard Di Rosa and Louis Jammes. Between 1982 and 1985, these artists exhibited alongside their American counterparts Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf in New York City, London, Pittsburgh and Paris. Figuration Libre (Free"
"was murdered in Toulouse by a Protestant mob. French Renaissance The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural ""rebirth"" of Europe. Notable developments during the French Renaissance include the spread of humanism, early exploration of the ""New World"" (as New France by Giovanni da Verrazzano and Jacques Cartier); the development of new techniques and artistic forms in the fields of printing, architecture, painting, sculpture, music, the"
"was shown to wide acclaim at the Salon of 1884. By a curious coincidence she succumbed to chronic illness the same year as her mentor. Jules Bastien-Lepage Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that emerged from the later phase of the Realist movement. Bastien-Lepage was born in the village of Damvillers, Meuse, and spent his childhood there. Bastien's father grew grapes in a vineyard to support the family. His grandfather also lived in the village; his garden had fruit trees of apple, pear,"
"the rocky beaches near Marseille. A report on German naturism was published in la ""Revue des deux mondes"". Marcel Kienné de Mongeot, who came from a noble family and who was an aviator in the Great War, is credited with starting naturism in France in 1920. By then he was a journalist who wrote a defense of the dancer, Malkowski, in the journal ""Vouloir"". His family had suffered from tuberculosis, and he saw naturism as a cure and a continuation of the traditions of the ancient Greeks. In 1926, he started the magazine ""Vivre intégralement"" (later called ""Vivre"") and the"
"life of his own, without the complacency of a typical still life. Living Still Life Living Still Life (French: Nature Morte Vivante"")"" is a painting by the artist Salvador Dalí. Dali painted this piece during a period that he called “Nuclear Mysticism.” Nuclear Mysticism is composed of different theories that try to show the relationships between quantum physics and the conscious mind. The different theories are composed of elements that range from “Catalan philosophers” to “classicism, pop art, and nuclear physics.” The painting, done in 1956, currently resides at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The name ""Nature"
"Tachisme Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word ""tache"", stain) is a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The term is said to have been first used with regards to the movement in 1951. It is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism, although there are stylistic differences (American abstract expressionism tended to be more ""aggressively raw"" than tachisme). It was part of a larger postwar movement known as Art Informel (or ""Informel""), which abandoned geometric abstraction in favour of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to action painting."
"at Art Brussels. He was included in the exhibition ""Nature Morte"", which toured museums in Norway, Sweden and Poland before returning to London's Guildhall in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include ""everywhen (2017)"" and ""gleam (2014)"". Stone has been referred to as ""one of the most talented emerging artists working in the UK today"" and his practice seen as seen as ""intrinsic to consider our place and purpose within an ever-changing world"". Stone was also included in Michael Petry's ""Nature Morte"" which explored the timeless tradition of still life, bought up to date by international contemporary artists including Matt Collishaw, Elmgreen"
"Still Life with Candlestick Still Life with Candlestick (French: Nature morte aux chandeliers, Nature morte, chandeliers, Nature morte au chandelier, Le chandelier) is an oil painting created in 1922 by the French artist Fernand Léger. This painting was stolen to order on 20 May 2010 from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The museum reported the overnight theft of five paintings from its collection, valued at ( ), though this may be conservative. The principle suspect, Vjeran Tomic (nicknamed ""Spider-Man"" for his ability to scale buildings), was commissioned by antiques dealer Jean-Michel Corvez to steal this painting"
"by Black Dog Publishing. Petry's book ""The Art of Not Making: the new artist/artisan relationship"" (Thames & Hudson, 2011) looks at artists who have work produced for them by artisans. Petry's 2013 book ""Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition"" (Thames & Hudson) revealed how leading artists of the 21st century are reinvigorating the still life, a genre previously synonymous with the 16th- and 17th-century Old Masters. ""Nature Morte"" was adapted into a touring exhibition which visited several European galleries and museums. He has also contributed chapters to various books and journals, including ""Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics"
"1904 in France Events from the year 1904 in France. The unofficial art mouvement of ""Fauvism"" (Fauves is the French word for ""wild beasts""). Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was the leader of the small group, with other major artists including André Derain (1880-1954) and maurice de Vlaminick (1876-1958). The mouvement was never made official with documents signed by members of a list of criteria in order for work to be considered Fauvism, but it was simply a small group of mainly French painters who used brilliant colour and unexpected brushstrokes, similar to the German Expressionism mouvement. Matisse created the Fauve style"
"Informalism Informalism or Art Informel is a pictorial movement that includes all the abstract and gestural tendencies that developed in France and the rest of Europe during the World War II parallel to American abstract expressionism. Several distinguishing trends are identified within the movement such as lyrical abstraction, matter painting, New Paris School, tachisme and art brut. The French art critic Michel Tapié coined the term ""art autre"" (other art) in the homonymous book in 1952 in relation to non-geometric abstract art. This movement has given way to New Informalism in the year 2000 in Chevry ll, in Gif sur"
"expression of ‘joie de vivre’. He worked in oils, gouache, and pastel, and his subject matter featured figures, portraits, nudes, still lifes, flowers, landscapes, and animals. His work is represented in many leading collections and museums, including the Modern Art Museum in Paris, and the museums in Toulouse, Albi, Marseilles, Chicago, and Helsinki. Jules Cavaillès Jules Cavailles (20 June 1901, Carmaux – 29 January 1977, Épineuil) was a French painter. He started as a technical draughtsman during which time he met “le pere Artigue” - who was a friend of the famous pointillist artist Henri Martin – and who encouraged"
"Jean Dubuffet Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called ""low art"" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Art Brut, and for the collection of works—""Collection de l'art brut""—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime. Dubuffet was born in"
"Francis Masse Francis Masse, known as Masse, is a French artist born on (August 21, 1948), in Gap, Hautes-Alpes). In the early 1970s, he first became acquainted with his sculptures, then turned to animation and cartoon. The poetic universe of Masse is served by an unusual graphic design where the scenes are created by means of printing rasters, as well as by a subtle work on the relief, the frame and the perspectives. Mainly since ""Les Deux du Balcon"" (1985), Masse starts focusing primarily on the scientific subjects: physics, astrophysics, cosmology, chaos, quantum mechanics, and so on, and extrapolates them"
"own death in order to make more money with his work. Francisque Millet Francisque Millet (27 April 1642, in Antwerp – 3 June 1679, in Paris), also known as Jean-François Milée or Millet I, was a Flemish-French landscape painter of the Baroque era. According to Houbraken, Millet was the son of an ivory worker from Dijon, who had been tempted to move to Brabant as a result of the patronage of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé. Since he found a market for ivory work in Antwerp, he stayed there and when later his son showed a talent for"
"production is often called contemporary art or postmodern art. Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec all of whom were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubists Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Jean Metzinger and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with ""wild"", multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism. Matisse's two versions of ""The Dance"" signified a key point in"
"be transformed to the nature surrounding us. So the artist creates a particular combination of shapes, subtle lines and free spaces. He names his artistic vocabulary ""Figuration particulière and moléculaire"". Based on the idea that the artist should stay out of focus, Emmanuel Flipo operates rather than ""medium"" for the cycle ""Etude topographique"". (According to the ideas of the French artistic movement meaning that the work itself should be focused - and not the artist.) Most of the forms and colors - created by found colors, leaves, feathers, rests of wallpapers - remind the spectator of an accident or coincidence."