In the 19th century and 20th century France, artistic talent flourished. When you speak of French paintings, the Impressionists strike you at once. The Impressionists captured the ever-changing aspects of reflected light. Some popular impressionists include Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar degas, Camille Pisarro and Pieree-Auguste Renoir. Later painters, like Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat became known faces.
Some popular painters of France are Le Nain Freres, G. de la Tour, Pouissin, Claude lorrain, Champaigne, C. LeBrun, Rigaud, Watteau, Nattier, Chardin, Liotard, Boucher, Greuze, Fragonard, J. L. David and Prud'hon.
In the past, cave painting was quite popular in France. The themes used in cave paintings were large wild animals like bison, horses, aurochs and deer. The drawing of humans is very rare. Cave Art began in the Aurignacian period (Germany). Cave Art reached its pinnacle during the late Magdalenian (Lascaux, France).
In the age of enlightenment, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture was very famous. The paintings of 1750 revolved around the themes of pleasure and fable. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Diderot started painting on heroic Antiquity.
David and Jean-Germain Drouais' works were opposed to the rocaille style. Later on Romanticiam took the foreground with Francois Gerard, Gros and Girodet as the prominent painters.
Some themes related to light-heartedness are Eisen Francois : The Swing, Huet Jean-Baptisie : Rustic Attributes, Pater Jean-Baptiste : The Bather, Bounieu Michel Honore : Bathers and Julien Simon : Tithonus and Aurora.
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