French art

'''French art''' consists of the [[visual arts|visual]] and [[plastic arts]] (including [[French architecture]], woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of [[France]]. Modern France was the main centre for the European [[art of the Upper Paleolithic]],{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} then left many [[megalith]]ic monuments, and in the [[Iron Age]] many of the most impressive finds of early [[Celtic art]]. The [[Gallo-Roman]] period left a distinctive provincial style of sculpture, and the region around the modern Franco-German border led the empire in the mass production of finely decorated [[Ancient Roman pottery]], which was exported to Italy and elsewhere on a large scale. With [[Merovingian art]] the story of French styles as a distinct and influential element in the wider development of the art of Christian Europe begins.

'''French art''' consists of the [[visual arts|visual]] and [[plastic arts]] (including [[French architecture]], woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of [[France]]. Modern France was the main centre for the European [[art of the Upper Paleolithic]],{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} then left many [[megalith]]ic monuments, and in the [[Iron Age]] many of the most impressive finds of early [[Celtic art]]. The [[Gallo-Roman]] period left a distinctive provincial style of sculpture, and the region around the modern Franco-German border led the empire in the mass production of finely decorated [[Ancient Roman pottery]], which was exported to Italy and elsewhere on a large scale. With [[Merovingian art]] the story of French styles as a distinct and influential element in the wider development of the art of Christian Europe begins.

Romanesque and Gothic architecture flourished in medieval France with Gothic architecture originating from the Île-de-France and Picardy regions of northern France.<ref>{{Cite web |last=carolinarh |date=2015-10-10 |title=French Romanesque I: Architecture |url=https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/french-romanesque-i-architecture/ |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=The Artistic Adventure of Mankind |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996997#page=317 |title=A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe |date=1 January 2006 |doi=10.1002/9780470996997 |isbn=978-0-470-99699-7 |editor-last1=Rudolph |editor-first1=Conrad }}</ref> During the [[Italian Renaissance|Renaissance]] led to Italy becoming the main source of stylistic developments until France matched Italy's influence during the [[Rococo]] and [[Neoclassicism]] periods{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} During the 19th century and up to mid-20th century France and especially Paris was considered the center of the art world with art styles such as [[Impressionism]], [[Post-Impressionism]], [[Cubism]], [[Fauvism]] originating there as well as movements and congregations of foreign artists such as the [[School of Paris|École de Paris]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Impressionism |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/i/impressionism |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=School of Paris |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/glossary-terms/school-paris |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=www.nationalgalleries.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rewald |first=Authors: Sabine |title=Fauvism {{!}} Essay {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art {{!}} Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rewald |first=Authors: Sabine |title=Cubism {{!}} Essay {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art {{!}} Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cube/hd_cube.htm |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Benjamin |first=Walter |date=1969 |title=Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1566965 |journal=Perspecta |volume=12 |pages=165–172 |doi=10.2307/1566965 |jstor=1566965 |issn=0079-0958|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=HIGONNET |first=Patrice L. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-E7P9dVSbgC&dq=paris+art+world+capital&pg=PP8 |title=Paris: Capital of the World |date=2009-06-30 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-03864-6 |language=en}}</ref>

Romanesque and Gothic architecture flourished in medieval France with Gothic architecture originating from the Île-de-France and Picardy regions of northern France.<ref>{{Cite web |last=carolinarh |date=2015-10-10 |title=French Romanesque I: Architecture |url=https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/french-romanesque-i-architecture/ |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=The Artistic Adventure of Mankind |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996997#page=317 |title=A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe |date=1 January 2006 |doi=10.1002/9780470996997 |isbn=978-0-470-99699-7 |editor-last1=Rudolph |editor-first1=Conrad }}</ref> The [[Italian Renaissance|Renaissance]] led to Italy becoming the main source of stylistic developments until France became the leading artistic ifluence after Louis XIV's reign, during the [[Rococo]] and [[Neoclassicism]] periods{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} During the 19th century and up to mid-20th century France and especially Paris was considered the center of the art world with art styles such as [[Impressionism]], [[Post-Impressionism]], [[Cubism]], [[Fauvism]] originating there as well as movements and congregations of foreign artists such as the [[School of Paris|École de Paris]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Impressionism |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/i/impressionism |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=School of Paris |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/glossary-terms/school-paris |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=www.nationalgalleries.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rewald |first=Authors: Sabine |title=Fauvism {{!}} Essay {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art {{!}} Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rewald |first=Authors: Sabine |title=Cubism {{!}} Essay {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art {{!}} Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cube/hd_cube.htm |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Benjamin |first=Walter |date=1969 |title=Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1566965 |journal=Perspecta |volume=12 |pages=165–172 |doi=10.2307/1566965 |jstor=1566965 |issn=0079-0958|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=HIGONNET |first=Patrice L. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-E7P9dVSbgC&dq=paris+art+world+capital&pg=PP8 |title=Paris: Capital of the World |date=2009-06-30 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-03864-6 |language=en}}</ref>

==Historic overview==

==Historic overview==