French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical...

unsettling social change in France, as Emperor Napoleon III rebuilt Paris and waged war—the Académie des Beaux-Arts dominated French art. The Académie was the...

17th-century French art is generally referred to as Baroque, but from the mid- to late 17th century, the style of French art shows a classical adherence...

Art Nouveau (/ˌɑːr(t) nuːˈvoʊ/ AR(T) noo-VOH, French: [aʁ nuvo] ; lit. 'New Art') is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially...

Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a two-volume French cookbook written by Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, both from France, and Julia Child,...

subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture. Gislebertus...

emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early...

French courts in 2008.[citation needed] Employers are free to decide whether to make Whit Monday a day off or not. French labor law, L3133-3 French labor...

20th-century French art developed out of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism that dominated French art at the end of the 19th century. The first half...

The Nabis (French: les nabis, French pronunciation: [le nabi]) were a group of young French artists active in Paris from 1888 until 1900, who played a...

The New Wave (French: Nouvelle Vague, French pronunciation: [nuvɛl vaɡ]), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in...

18th-century French art was dominated by the Baroque, Rococo and neoclassical movements. In France, the death of Louis XIV in September 1715 led to a...

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. 'Decorative Arts'), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared...

used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural "rebirth" of Europe. Notable developments during the French Renaissance...

Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically...

Francis I (French: François Ier; Middle French: Francoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was...

1866–1868. As the academic art promoted by the Paris Salon, always more rigid than London, was felt to be stifling French art, alternative exhibitions,...

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency...

SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire...

Contemporary French Cultural Studies. Arnold Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0-340-74050-7 Marmer, Nancy, "Out of Paris: Decentralizing French Art, "Art in America...

Of the languages of France, French is the sole official language according to the second article of the French Constitution. French, a Gallo-Romance language...

Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist...

himself entirely to painting. As an art dealer, Theo van Gogh played a crucial role in introducing contemporary French art to the public. Theo died at the...

collage and abstract art would inform the movement's detachment from the constraints of reality and convention. The work of French poets, Italian Futurists...

French literature (French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France;...

19th-century French art was made in France or by French citizens during the following political regimes: Napoleon's Consulate (1799–1804) and Empire (1804–14)...

perceived domination of French art. Before World War II, the concept of Modernism was not clearly defined in the context of American art. There was also a struggle...

stayed in France, "painting ceaselessly", notes Baal-Teshuva. It was not until 1927 that Chagall made his name in the French art world, when art critic and...

Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors...

French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France. In the 14th century, Guillaume Tirel, a court chef known as "Taillevent", wrote Le...