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The article offers information on artist Eugène Delacroix and his work and artistic practice. Topics discussed include the painting "La Barque de Dante" by Delacroix, which he painted to gain public attention; the influence of the work of his mentor Théodore Géricault on Delacroix; and the idea of the modern painting by Charles Baudelaire.

The article offers information on the routine life of painter Marc Chagall above the French Riviera, France. Everyday before starting his work, he runs from the garden of his white-walled studio house Les Collines to Avenue Henri Matisse cutting off to rocky, flower-lined paths unknown to tourists. Moreover, he imitate nature in his abstract paintings and majority of his patrons prefer his paintings than the graphic works of Picasso.

The article focuses on French artist Henri Matisse's "Odalisques" paintings. According to the author, Matisse began working on his Odalisque series in the 1920s by making use of oriental props that he had acquired from his souvenir shopping in Morocco. Matisse painted over thirty odalisques reclining or sitting within exquisitely patterned interiors. The author says that the Odalisques enabled Matisse to distill the basic meanings of Moroccan themes into harmonious patterns of equivalences.

The article reports on the exhibitions of paintings by Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci worldwide, in celebration of his 500th birthday. One of his famous paintings is the Mona Lisa that is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The lady in the painting is the wife of a merchant in Florence. According to Professor George Boas of Johns Hopkins University, her smile has different interpretations.

The article focuses on several developments in the U.S. and around the world, as of December 17, 1891. U.S. President Benjamin Harrison informs Congress that Germany has opened her ports to inspected American pork products. Harrison adds that the removal of these restrictions in every instance was given solely upon the ground that the U.S. had now provided a meat inspection that should be accepted as adequate. It seems that a committee composed of the most prominent French artists has decided to organize at Paris, in the spring of 1892, an exhibition of the works of French painter Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier and that American owners of pictures by that painter are to be approached for the purpose of requesting loans to the exhibition.

The article presents an interview with photographer Anselm Kiefer. When asked when did he moved to Barjac in France, he answers that he came there in 1992 and had designed the 42 buildings on his property. He admits that he is not talented enough to be a painter like Picasso or Matisse. He expresses his fascination with lead and alchemy.

Features Vincent van Gogh's painting, titled "The Bedroom". Brief profile of the artist; Total number of versions of the oil painting; Depiction of Van Gogh's bedroom in Arles, France.

The article reports that on the wall of Gerard DuBois's Montréal home and office is an illustration of a black rabbit--an Easter Bunny, to be precise--titled Le Lapin Noir du Chevalier Noir. Like many of the drawings and paintings that grace the walls of the DuBois home, the work is not Gerard's. Drawing was always a passion of Gerard's. An avid comic reader since he was eight, he was drawing even before that. But the first time the idea of "artist" as a career choice occurred to him was at the age of fourteen, when the headmistress of his public school encouraged him to apply for advanced study at an art school in the heart of Paris.

Profiles French artist Honore Daumier. Interest in making lithographs about corrupt politicians and the social elite; Difference between Daumier's painting from his lithographic illustrations; Emphasis on his 1865 painting Orchestral Stalls; Implication on art education.

Focuses on the author's visit to the painting school Art Heaven in Soreze, France, founded by California artist Carole Watanabe. Description of her first day at Art Heaven; Discussion on ways she and the other guests expressed themselves through art; Information that the author and other guests were terrified by an image of blank canvases.

Profiles French painter Gustave Moreau. Acclamation of his works and the exhibition `Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream'; Details of his paintings, including his use of colors; Use of figures and settings from the Bible and from mythology; Biographical information; Example of his works, including `Oedipus and the Sphinx'; Influence from romantic painters Eugene Delacroix and Theodore Chasseriau; Impact of his love's, Alexandrine Dureux, death on his work; Comments on his watercolors.

This article profiles French painter Jean Hélion. At eighty-one, Jean Hélion is one of the two major living representatives of the classic prewar School of Paris. Like Balthus, who is the other, he has never conformed to fashion; and, perhaps for that reason, he has received inconsistent attention in New York. This is rather a pity, for Hélion worked here off and on for about five years in the late thirties and early forties, and few French painters have played so important a part in the history of the New York avant-garde. Nonetheless, even his most devoted admirers in the U.S. have found it hard, down the decades, to keep track of his many successive interests and achievements. Because Hélion has lived so long yet has shown only intermittently in this country, every generation of U.S. viewers must practically discover him for itself. His style is constantly changing, so every generation has its own Hélion, and his work as a body remains permanently out of focus. As if to complicate matters, his images are often too dense with meaning to be emotionally grasped without a lengthy acquaintance. The masses of derelict objects he has painted in the past few decades--threadbare hats, eviscerated pumpkins, wilting plants--inevitably remind someone of flux and decay, and his sketchy figures can often seem, like so many parvenus at a party, only memorandums for an impossible version of themselves.

This article features Henri Matisse and his work from the period 1916 to 1930, his Nice period, which is on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Although by the time Matisse got to Nice he was already one of the young century's most expensive and highly regarded painters--two distinctions maintained until his death, which rightfully continue--it is his work of the early Nice period that has been generally condescended to by many experts (if not the public), who on the whole consider it to be lacking in structure, somehow superficial because so beguiling, altogether too easy, as against his earlier and later work. Matisse was born on New Year's Eve 1869 at his maternal grandparents' home at La Cateau, a small town not far from the Belgian border. He went to school in the provincial city of Saint Quentin, the main urban center of the area, and in 1887 went off to the University of Paris to study law. In 1898, he married Amélie Parayre, with whom he went to London before going on to paint in Corsica. There he had his introduction to Mediterranean light and color. It is somehow perplexing to think of this work-obsessed, grave, dignified, in-drawn man as the creator of some of the most delicately balanced, perfectly nuanced, most harmonious and, above all, most joyous works of art ever created.

The article features painter Andrew Dasburg, one of the artists who introduced Post-Impressionism in America. A background of the artist's family, studies and marriages is presented. Information is given about his life as an artist, his stay in Paris, France where he became influenced by the works of Cézanne, the story behind the painting "The Presence of Mabel," and the trip to Taos, New Mexico where he eventually lived. The author describes Dasburg's style of painting in his Taos landscapes and through the years till his death.

The article features artist Bruno Stern Zupan. A biographical account of his life is presented, including his birth in Yugoslavia, finding passion to be an artist as a child , studying art in Zagreb, Croatia and going to Paris to become a painter where he met and married American Jane Ritchie. It details the travels of the couple to the U.S. where Zupan connected with a gallery, sold paintings and made one-man shows, and Majorca, Spain, Venice and more places he finds painting inspirations. The artistic elements of Zupan's paintings are also described.

This article discusses the life and works of artist and author Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. He was born on June 19, 1884 at Montpellier in the south of France. He composed symphonies and operas and wrote a play when he was young. He studied at the Jullian Academy and the Beaux-Arts in Paris. He decided to stop painting when he was 29 years old. His play L'Empereur de Chine was written in 1916 and his Le Serin Muet in 1919. These plays displayed certain characteristics of Dadaism. Ribemont-Dessaignes was actively involved in several Dada programs. Le Serin Muet was performed during one of these programs in March 1920. Some of his paintings were featured at a number of exhibitions. Ribemont-Dessaignes continued to write plays even after the decline of the Dada movement. He also began to write novels. In 1929, he became chief editor of Bifur, an international publication. He started drawing again in 1955.

The article presents a letter related to the conditions of the art industry in Paris, France. It features the French painter Henri Mattisse and his works. It also describes Mattisse's artistic career depicted through the exhibitions of the paintings he had made. The letter also features the theatrical performances of the Teatro Libero di Roma. Some revival of opera performances are also included in the presentations.

The article profiles Bernard Buffet, a famous painter from France during the post-World War II era. It includes background information on Buffet and his career as an artist, a description of his painting style and his notable artwork credits. The issues' implications for art and artists are also cited.

Presents information on French painter Th&ecute;odore Géricault with emphasis on the exhibition of his paintings at Louvre in Paris. Discussion of the professional career of Géricault; Observation of French painter Peter Paul Rubens by Géricault; Information on the painting of Le March&ecute; aux Boeufs; Influence of Great Britain on the art of Géricault.

Paris may be called at the present moment the city of exhibitions. There is first the annual exhibition of living artists, the chief picture in which is "Christ on the Cross," painted by M. Bonnat for the Criminal Court of Paris. It is an old tradition in all French criminal courts to place a picture of Christ over the head of the judge. Bonnat has abandoned the old traditional type of Christ and painted a new one, conceived in a more realistic manner. Secondly the magnificent Loan Exhibition, held at the Palais Bourbon, for the benefit of the Alsatian emigrants to Algeria, were composed of all the gems of the most celebrated private galleries in Paris.

Comments on the paintings by French artist Maurice Utrillo. Reference to an under process painting by the artist on the image of France; Influence on other painters by Utrillo because of his extraordinary ideas and his capability of improvisation in his painting; Appreciation of the Utrillo's painting entitled "Rue de Crimée"; Discussion on the position of Utrillo among modern painters; Account of the qualities of Utrillo as a painter; Insight to initial professional and personal life of Utrillo.

The article offers information on the death of artist Pablo Picasso in France. It states that Picasso died due to heart attack brought on by pulmonary edema, fluid in the lungs as indicated by physician Georges Ranne. It notes that Picasso's dead body is buried at 14th century chateau at Vauvenargues in the bleak Provencal countryside. In addition, Picasso's daughters from his other women were prohibited to see their father at his final day, thus his children placed a large wreath of vivid flowers in the cemetery overlooking the chateau.

Focuses on the career of French painter Andre Derain. Influence over younger French artists; Comparison of Derain's work with that of Pablo Picasso; Description of Derain's position in the Paris art community; Puzzlement of English critics with the artist; Derain's views on various social issues;.

Profiles the French painter, Paul Cezanne. Career history of Cezanne; Artistic style of the painter; Themes of Cezanne's works; Family background; Factors that made Cezanne wary of people and made him develop violent moods; Conflict between the character of Cezanne's work and the man's character; Comparison of Cezanne's works with that of Monet; Manifestations of Cezanne's fears and torments in his work; Reasons why Cezanne is so admired by the world; Reasons behind the existence of limitations in the subjects of Cezanne's artworks.

Paris, France like New York, is gorged with art. It is not merely that the tradition of Gallic painting continues to evoke a bourgeois and hedonistic ideal of life which no longer bears on the realities of postwar experience. All that remains in the French capital of modern art's heroic period are fragments of the great argument, breaking themselves down into ever smaller gobbets of sensation, or vaguer generalizations. In France, an awareness of problems still unsolved never enters into the dialogue between artist and spectator not merely has a sensitivity to the explorative diminished, but hopefulness as to what art can accomplish, a feeling for the largeness of its scope, has shrunken pitifully.

The article focuses on French artist Henri Matisse's workshop. The author explains that the painter likes to have his works exposed around him when he creates. The artist had two different workshops, l'atelier rouge, and l'atelier rose, located in France. Images of paintings representing them are also presented.

Profiles French painter Georges Seurat. Career history of Seurat; Educational background of the painter; Famous artworks of Seurat; Subjects of Seurat's paintings; Inspiration behind Seurat's art.

Explores the uncommon setting and world-class collection of La Piscine museum in Roubaix, France. Works of famous artists housed in the museum; History of construction of the museum; Conversion of the municipal swimming pool into the museum; Dominance of 19th- and 20th-century paintings at the museum.

Presents information on a self-portrait by painter Joan Miró. Interest of Miro in Cubist artists; Description of the painting; Spanish artist who purchased the painting; Reasons behind Miro's decision to study and paint in Paris, France; Measurement of a ceramic wall mural that the artist created at the Barcelona Airport in Spain.

The article describes the painting "Montmartre," by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. The said painting is one of his first artworks done in Paris, France. The mood, color and design of the painting are compared to his other works such as "Starry Night" and "Wheat Field With Cypresses." It is said that van Gogh may have aimed to express realism in the scene depicted in the painting.

The article offers information on an art exhibition displaying the works of artist Orlan, to be held at the Gallery Night in Paris, France on October 18-December 12, 2018.

The article highlights the life and works of French painter Jean François Millet. It mentions that he was born in 1814 and spent most of his life in rural area in France. It notes that Millet was the first artist who makes peasants as a subject including digging, hoeing, planting potatoes, and spreading manure. It cites that the paintings of Millet, including the "Angelus," were the most popular works of art in the age of mass production, and were disseminated by millions of postcards, knickknacks, engravings and parodies.

The article features poster artist Paul Colin of France and his works. The subjects of his works include Isadora Duncan, the French National Railroads, and vacation resorts such as Cannes and Deauville. He is known for turning a subject's single feature into an artistic stop sign and for his telegraphic style as a letter writer. Information about his exhibition "Femmes" which showcases canvases containing whole women is also included.

The article presents information on the exhibition "Paintings By Forain." This collection of Jean-Louis Forain was assembled with some difficulty, the larger portion of his work being in France. There are enough here to show what a great painter he is. At this exhibition one recaptures for a moment the beauty, harmony, and wit which France stands for. As a deeply rooted human being lie understood life in its entirety, and as the artist he responded to tragedy, mystery, and comedy. This applies to all the paintings but is especially true of the courtroom scenes and of those depicting opera or cabaret, experts at work, and the life of the artist.

The article reports about a show of landscape paintings of the Seine river. According to the author, this is a magnificent show, containing an unbelievable russet and orange landscape by artist Auguste Renoir and others' view of the Tuileries, and masterpieces, too numerous to take in on one visit.