School of Paris

Examples of School of Paris in the following topics:

• Art Informel in Europe

  • The movement abandoned geometric abstraction in favor of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to Action Painting in the United States.
  • Art Informel did not refer to a sense of "informal art" or a simple reduction of formality, but instead was characterized by a complete absence of form in art.
  • Abstract expressionism was a school of painting in the United States that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s.
  • Tachisme is a specific French style of abstract painting under the greater movement of Art Informel.
  • Often referred to the School of Paris, tachisme was a reaction to Cubism and is characterized by spontaneous brushwork, paint dripped straight from the tube onto canvas, and scribbling reminiscent of calligraphy.

• Landscape Painting in the Romantic Period

  • French painters were slower to develop an interest in landscapes, but in 1824, the Salon de Paris exhibited the works of John Constable, an extremely talented English landscape painter.
  • They formed what is referred to as the Barbizon School.
  • During the late 1860s, the Barbizon painters attracted the attention of a younger generation of French artists studying in Paris.
  • The work of Thomas Cole, the school's generally acknowledged founder, seemed to emanate from a similar philosophical position as that of European landscape artists.
  • Thomas Cole was a founding member of the pioneering Hudson School, the most influential landscape art movement in 19th Century America.

• Mathura Style

  • The museum is famous for ancient sculptures of the Mathura school dating from 3rd century BC to 12th century AD.
  • The Mathuran school contributed clothes covering the left shoulder of thin muslin, the wheel on the palm, the lotus seat, etc.
  • Banerjee in Hellenism in India describes "the mixed character of the Mathura School in which we find on the one hand, a direct continuation of the old Indian art of Bharut and Sanchi and on the other hand, the classical influence derived from Gandhara. " Moreover, the art of Mathura features frequent sexual imagery.
  • The museum is famous for ancient sculptures of the Mathura school dating from 3rd century BC to 12th century AD.
  • Buddha from the Gupta period, Musée Guimet, Paris.

• Academic Architecture

  • Beaux-Arts architecture expressed the academic neoclassical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
  • Beaux-Arts architecture expresses the academic neoclassical architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
  • Slightly overscaled details, bold sculptural supporting consoles, rich deep cornices, swags and lavish sculptural enrichments, all flourished in the Beaux-Arts style, as demonstrated in the Opera Garnier in Paris .
  • After centuries of dominating architectural schools and training processes, the Beaux-Arts style began fade in favor of Modernist architecture and the International Style on the eve of World War I.
  • Note the naturalism of the postures and the channeled rustication of the stonework.

• Dada and Surrealism

  • Dada and Surrealism were multidisciplinary cultural movements of the European avant-garde that emerged in Zurich and Paris respectively during the time of WWI.
  • By 1921, most of the original Dadists moved to Paris, where Dada experienced its last major incarnation.
  • Inspired by Tristan Tzara, Paris Dada soon issued manifestos, organized demonstrations, staged performances and a number of journals.
  • Surrealist works drew inspiration from intuition, the power of the unconscious mind and various psychological schools of thought.
  • Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris.

• Carolingian Illustrated Books in the Early European Middle Ages

  • The earliest workshop was the Court School of Charlemagne, then the Rheimsian workshop (which became the most influential of the Carolingian period), the Touronian style, the Drogo style, and the Court School of Charles II (the Bald).
  • The Court School manuscripts were ornate and elaborate: reminiscent of sixth-century ivories and mosaics from Ravenna, Italy.
  • Finally Charles the Bald established a Court School that fused Touronian, Rhemsian, and Charlemagne Court School styles.
  • Its location is uncertain, but several manuscripts are attributed to Charles the Bald's School, with the Codex Aureus of St.
  • Denis outside Paris by the time of the production of the Codex.

• Primitivism and Cubism

  • African artifacts were being brought back to Paris museums following the expansion of the French empire into Africa.
  • Around 1906, Picasso, Matisse, Derain and other Paris-based artists had acquired an interest in Primitivism, Iberian sculpture, African art and tribal masks, in part due to the works of Paul Gauguin that had recently achieved recognition in Paris's avant-garde circles.
  • Gauguin's powerful posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1903 and 1906 had a powerful influence on Picasso's paintings .
  • Other works of Picasso's African Period include the Bust of a Woman (1907, in the National Gallery, Prague); Mother and Child (Summer 1907, in the Musée Picasso, Paris); Nude with Raised Arms (1907, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain); and Three Women (Summer 1908, in the Hermitage Museum, St.
  • Cubism had a global reach as a movement, influencing similar schools of thought in literature, music and architecture.

• Romanesque Illustrated Books

  • A number of regional schools of art converged during the early Romanesque period and influenced the production of illuminated manuscripts and illustrated books.
  • The "Channel school" of England and Northern France was heavily influenced by late Anglo-Saxon art, whereas the style in southern France depended more on Iberian influence.
  • By the 12th century there had been reciprocal influences between all of these schools, although a degree of regional distinctiveness remained.
  • The Fécamp Bible is an illuminated Latin Bible produced in Paris during the third quarter of the 13th century.
  • The Fécamp Bible is an illuminated Latin Bible produced in Paris during the late 13th century.

• Effects of Colonialism on Nigerian Art

  • Aina Onabolu (1882–1963) was a pioneering Nigerian modern arts teacher and painter who was an important figure in the introduction of arts into the curriculum of secondary schools in the country.
  • Little was thought of arts education in secondary schools until a report recommended the teaching of native indigenous hand craft.
  • Onabolu returned from London and Paris in 1922, where he had acquired knowledge of European painting techniques and the characteristics of European art education.
  • Onabolu began teaching in a few top schools in Lagos such as King's College and CMS Grammar School.
  • The new approach of promoting indigenous African arts and staying within the native repository of knowledge was introduced into the curriculum of various secondary schools in the country.

• Japanese Art after World War II

  • Styles of the New York-Paris art world were fervently embraced.
  • Some of these artists felt more identified with the international school of art rather than anything specifically Japanese.
  • Many other older schools of art were still practiced, most notably those of the Edo and prewar periods.
  • The realism of Maruyama Ōkyo's school and the calligraphic and spontaneous Japanese style of the gentlemen-scholars were both widely practiced in the 1980s.
  • At times, all of these schools (along with older ones, such as the Kano school ink traditions) were drawn on by contemporary artists in the Japanese style and in the modern idiom.