Trademark Fine Art French School 'Map Of Tahiti Island, French Polynesia' Canvas Art,24x32
- Artist: French School
- Subject: Map
- Style: Industrial
- Product Type: Gallery-Wrapped Canvas Art
This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a black and white, labeled map of the island of Tahiti.
Prominent Colors: White, Grey
French art, like that of Spain, was almost wholly under Italian influence during the 15th and 16th centuries. Throughout the 18th century the French school was very prolific, but shared the mediocrity of the age, the corruption and artificiality of which impressed themselves strongly on the painting of the time. In the first half of the 19th century, Prud'hon, Ingres, Horace Vernet, and Delaroche--artists of ony moderate merit--were in great repute, and more deservedly the very brilliant landscape painter Rousseau. By the late 1800s Paris possessed by far the most important school of art existing. French painters on the whole are supreme in power of drawing and technical skill, merits that are often counterbalanced by false sentimentalism or excessive realism. Art in France entered a state of the most prolific activity, and branching out into new phases, such as the Impressionist style, where form is suppressed for the sake of color, and the naturalist school, which leans rather to what is ugly or even loathsome.
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