... ; all of them were over thirty and had been working ardently for fifteen years and more. They had studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, gone to the older generation for advice, discussed and absorbed the various currents in the arts of their time. Some even had obtained a certain success at different Salons before the Franco-Prussian War. But they had declined to ... art world would be left reeling as impressionism, surrealism, Fauvism, modernism exploded on the art landscape. This remarkable shift in European painting paralleled breaks with the past in the other arts as well. Old forms w...

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... in the direction of a classical draftsmanship, stressing balance and clarity of outline. After beginning his artistic studies with Louis Lamothes, a pupil of Ingres, he started classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts but left in 1854 and went to Italy. He stayed there for 5 years, studying Italian art, especially Renaissance works. There are many great paintings to remind us that the artists ... ...

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... painting at the age of twenty-one, and in 1891 he enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris. The following year he transferred to the École des Beaux Arts, where he studied under the great Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. In 1899, Matisse was introduced to André Derain, who in turn introduced him to Maurice de Vlaminck. These artists ... ...

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