Do you like French Art ?

Answer 1

yup. But only the stuff I've seen. :)

Answer 2

The French society is a culture of details. The French are obsessed with little details in the big picture. One of the most memorable era of French painting was the impressionist in the 19th Century as well as the Surrealist in the 20th. I like French art simply because the French are willing to try something new. Just look at the Pompideau Building in Paris, it looks like no other building in the world.

Also many artist have traveled to France for inspiration. Van Gogh, Gaugain, Camus, the writer, and the list goes on an on.

When one is talking about French art one is talking about a certain style of refineness. French Art is polished, that's why I like it.

Answer 3

You ask a very broad question, because french art from what period?
If we talk about art from the beginning of the 20th century and and of 19th century I must say yes. At that time we had the discovery of the prism effect and the scientists began to understand how the color brake down. The impressionists picked it up and started to paint their paintings.
Monet with his soft and worm colors, Degas with his ballet dancers, Renoir with his figurative painting, not talking about Van Gogh who painted his best work in France and was influanced by the impressionists. Many others to many to count.
Picasso spent almost all of his life in Paris painting, Magiliani and other Spaniards and Italians, Poles and other nationalities.
The French have influanced our culture , style, , art since before the Napolian wars, with furniture of Louis xiv to todays fashion.
The question is do I like it? I do, it is well done work that our culture is based on, andI might not want all of it in my house, but I love to look at it.

Answer 4

the french are pretty good in the art side

Answer 5

Yes, I like French art.

However it is very varied, depending in large part on the era.

I find the French Baroque scenes of artists such as Poussin too still, composed and orderly to be realistic or even totally representational.

However, a lot of the artists of the Neo-Classical and Neo-Baroque eras of the early to mid-1800s used their art to make excellent social statements. Examples are 'Oath of the Horatii' and 'Death of Marat' by David, and 'The Raft of the Medusa' by Géricault. Courbet and Millet also painted stories that were social statements regarding the dignity of the working class people in the mid-1800s. Even artists of the Rococo movement, which briefly preceeded these two eras, tried to bring deeper messages into their delicate-looking and ornately detailed paintings.

The French often are credited with being the founders of modern art, and the painting called 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe' (1863) by Manet is the work that is said to have launched the Modern Art Movement. The Salon des Refusés in Paris played an important role in lifting the traditional constraints placed on artists by the Academy, which dictated media, materials and subject matter among other things. The Impressionist paintings, to me are very restful because of the treatment of light and colour and the softly defined forms. The subject matter in Impressionist paintings tends to involve everyday people doing everyday things as well as familiar types of scenery. It is thus not exclusionary. I like the works and themes of artists such as Monet, Renoir and Degas. The way they work with colour is great. Manet and Degas have been known to use painting to send out messages of the emptiness of urban life around the era of "The Gay 90s" and the turn of the century. Their work is clever as well as skillful. (e.g. 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère' by Manet and 'The Glass of Absinthe' by Degas)

The Post-Impressionist artists used colour vividly (e.g. van Gogh and Cézanne). Cubism, as well as Picasso himself, was very interesting and innovative. Fauvism and renounced artist Matisse are synonymous with vivid treatment of colour. The Dada movement - the cult of absurdity - that shortly followed was a very brilliant social statement. Surrealist artists, many of whom were French, had a longterm impact on music as well as the visual arts. Note that the Beatles had studied Surrealism in art school. Admittedly, much Surrealist art is creepy or at least eery (e.g. Magritte and Dali). The work of Marcel Duchamp is very interesting and original. e.g. 'Nude Descending a Staircase','Fountain' (a.k.a. ' R. Mutt') and 'The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even' (a.k.a. 'Le viol').

In short, even though French art has changed a lot through the ages in terms of style, one factor that remains constant is the presence of social consciousness. The French have been creative pioneers and innovators who were not afraid to try out new styles and to work with new materials.

If I had to decorate a room in a particular style, I probably would go with an Impressionist painting because the style is restful, colourful, versatile and attractive. It does not detract. It just tends to enhance or complement what already is present in a room. Impressionist reproductions sell well.

Answer 6

yes