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    List of French artists

    The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.

    Middle Ages

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    See also: Middle Ages, Gothic architecture, and Illuminated manuscript

    • Gislebertus (12th century), sculptor
    • Pierre de Montreuil (c.&#;–), architect
    • Villard de Honnecourt (13th century), other media
    • Jean Pucelle (active –28), other media
    • Jean Malouel (Dutch, worked in Burgundy) (–), painter
    • Anastasia (fl. c.&#;), manuscript illuminator
    • Claus Sluter (Dutch, worked in Burgundy from –), sculptor
    • the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) (Dutch artists working in Burgundy around –), other media

    Renaissance

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    See also: Renaissance, Francis I of France, Henry II of France, Catherine de' Me

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    Louis Vauxcelles

    French art critic (–)

    Louis Vauxcelles (French pronunciation:[lwivosɛl]; born Louis Meyer; 1 January &#;&#; 21 July [1]) was a French art critic.[2] He is credited with coining the terms Fauvism () and Cubism (). He used several pseudonyms in various publications: Pinturrichio, Vasari, Coriolès, and Critias.[3]

    Fauvism

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    Vauxcelles was born in Paris. He coined the phrase 'les fauves' (translated as 'wild beasts') in a review of the Salon d'Automne exhibition to describe in a mocking, critical manner a circle of painters associated with Henri Matisse. As their paintings were exposed in the same room as a Donatello sculpture of which he approved, he stated his criticism and disapproval of their works by describing the sculpture as "a Donatello amongst the wild beasts."[4]

    Henri Matisse's Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) appeared at the Indépendants, entitled Tableau no. III. Vauxcelles writes

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    Fernand Léger

    French painter

    Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French:[fɛʁnɑ̃leʒe]; February 4, – August 17, ) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal struktur of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.

    Biography

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    Léger was born in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, where his father raised boskap. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from to , before moving in to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles, Yvelines, in –, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts after his application to the École des Beaux-Arts was rejected. He nevertheless attended the Beaux-Arts as a non-enrolled lärjunge, spending what he described as "three empty and useless years" studying with Gérôme and others, w