Art Schools In France

Renaissance

Renaissance (Renaissance sense) is a cultural movement that began in Italy in the fourteenth century and spread throughout Europe. In art, style of painting became very realistic, and tried to imitate nature as much as possible.

• What to look for one point of view three-dimensional rich in proportion to human subjects (usually in costume and making grand gestures), and convincing representation of space.

Baroque

The term Baroque is often applied to art of all the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century. Painters expanded the naturalist tradition established during the Renaissance, and extended their subjects include landscapes, still lifes. Baroque painters often put their subjects in vast landscapes, or interiors with extended views through doors, windows or mirrors.

• What to look for: spaces melodramatic fat cherubs, rays of light and fruit cups.

Rococo

Rococo is a decorative art that originated in France in the early eighteenth century and is characterized by elaborate ornamentation, with a profusion of scrolls, foliage, and forms a shell.

• What to look for paintings of the aristocracy at play, the asymmetry of composition, many small ornamental details, and pastel colors.

Neoclassicism

During the neoclassical period (mid-eighteenth century), the work of the Greeks and Romans (the pre-Renaissance) has become popular again, and paintings depicting historical subjects.

• What to look for paintings with sharp edges, cool colors, armor, spears and sandals.

Romanticism

The romance is supposed to be in opposition to neo-classicism, and the term used to refer loosely to a trend in the art of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It was characterized by the avoidance of classical forms and rules, emphasis on the emotional and spiritual, nostalgia for the grace of past ages, and a predilection for exotic themes.

• What to look for: complex compositions, intense color, soft contours and heroic or scantily clad subjects.

Realism (1850 - 1880)

Realism emerged in France during the industrial revolution. Artists Realists attempted to create objective, accurate, detailed, plain and representations of the outside world based on impartial observation of contemporary life. The name of realism refers to them; humble citizens make daily work and already considered unworthy of representation in high art, rather than heroes, biblical or classical subjects, and portraits of the rich.

• What to look for paintings of working poor.

Pre-Raphaelites (1848)

The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of young English artists who rebelled against the style of the day was taught at the Royal Academy and other art schools. They believed art was dark and muddy in color, and the artificial object. They admired the work of artists of the fifteenth century, and their name, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, honored with the representation of nature in Italian art before "Raphael". Pre-Raphaelite artists believed art should have a serious, moral purpose and their work often filled with symbols indicating the meaning. Above all, they believed in the art.