... that were current in France. Their characteristic features - exuberant lines, harmonious proportions and the integration of decorative features with structure - were taken directly from French furniture. Time and distance did, however, lead to changes that gave French Canadian furniture its own special character. The colony's craftsmen, unrestrained by rules established by trade guilds, could give free rein to their imagination. They adapted ... the forms of the major styles and created traditional motifs characteristic of New France. Most traditional French Canadian furniture made befo...

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Fauvism (which is French for "wild beast") is a term that art critics hurled at the painters whose art they neither liked nor understood when they first viewed it in art galleries. It was a short-lived art movement (1905-1908) that was adopted by a group of French painters: Henri Matisse, George Roualt, Claude Derain, Maurice de Vlamink, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, Albert Marquet, and Kees van Dongen (a Dutch painter living in Paris). The Fauves' influence was international and is considered as having been crucial to Twentieth Century art. It was characterized by a bold distortio...

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... American civilization. In his "America: The Multinational Society" essay he said " Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization, or the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings, whose creators were influenced by Japanese art? And what of the cubists, through whom the influence of African art changed modern painting- I think that it is true that American ... ...

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