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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 1903, the first Salon d'Automne was organized by Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon. The exhibition almost immediately became the showpiece of developments and innovations in 20th century painting and sculpture. While the Salon was dominated by the painters, Jacques Villon was one of the artists who helped organize the drawing section of the first salon and later would help the Puteaux Group gain recognition with showings at the Salon des Indépendants. The poet-painter-critic Tristan Klingsor was another early exhibitor. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Fernand Léger, Alphonse Mucha, Cecilia Beaux, André Derain, Beatrice Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, J. C. Leyendecker, Gutzon Borglum, Georges Emile Lebacq, Félix Vallotton, Jean Dubuffet, Charles Demuth, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Charles W. Bartlett, C. F. Goldie, Ernest Peixotto, Edward Clark Potter, Colin Campbell Cooper, Maurice Denis, René Schützenberger, Francis Cadell, Henrietta Rae, R. H. Ives Gammell, Pierre Bonnard, Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, William Mcgregor Paxton, Paul Sérusier, Frederick Ruckstull, Henri Bouchard, Alexander Rummler, Jenny Nyström, Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar, Thomas Dewing, Roland Hinton Perry, Frederick William Sievers, Paul Ranson, Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent. She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France. Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era. Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, daughter of prominent businessman John Wheeler Leavitt of New York City and his wife Cecilia Kent of Suffield, Connecticut. Cecilia Kent Leavitt died from puerperal fever twelve days after giving birth at age thirty-three. Cecilia Leilie Beaux and her sister Etta were subsequently raised by their maternal grandmother and aunts, primarily in Philadelphia. Her father, unable to bear the grief of his loss, and feeling adrift in a foreign country, returned to his native France for sixteen years, with only one visit back to Phila...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6881 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Georges Mandel, Pierre Trabaud, Pierre-François Réal, André Derain, Pierre Lacotte, Pascal Roland, Michel Moine, Christian Roux, Lucien Dalsace, Frédéric Benrath, Dominique Artus, Pierre-Alain Hubert, Thierry Laudrain, Jacqueline Dufranne, François Bernheim, Christophe Frionnet. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Georges Mandel, de son vrai nom Louis Georges Rothschild né le 5 juin 1885 à Chatou (Seine-et-Oise) et assassiné arbitrairement par le régime vichyste le 7 juillet 1944 dans la forêt de Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), est un homme politique majeur de l'entre-deux-guerres et un actif résistant français. S'il a été décrit comme le fils naturel d'une fille Rothschild, il est sans parenté avec la famille de banquiers du même nom. Jeune journaliste collaborateur de Georges Clémenceau à L'Homme libre, il le suit sur les chemins de la politique en devenant un de ses attachés de cabinet en 1908. Lorsque son vieux directeur accéde à la présidence du conseil en novembre 1917, il devient son chef de cabinet. Une longue carrière politique lui est ouverte dans le camp conservateur après la Grande Guerre. Né en 1885 d'un père tailleur, dans une famille juive d'Alsace ayant opté en 1871 pour rester française, il s'engage très jeune en faveur d'Alfred Dreyfus et se lance dans le journalisme. De convictions conservatrices et nationalistes, il entre à 21 ans à L'Aurore, le journal de Georges Clemenceau qui a fait paraître le « J'accuse » d'Émile Zola. Clemenceau a eu sur son collaborateur des mots mordants : « Mandel n'avait pas d'idées, mais il était prêt à les défendre jusqu'à la mort ». Il a dit aussi plus trivialement : « Quand c'est moi qui pète, c'est lui qui pue ! » Quand en 1906 Clemenceau accède ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Georges Braque, Kees Van Dongen, André Derain, Simbolul, Émilie Charmy, János Mattis-Teutsch, Georges Rouault, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Louis Valtat, William Sommer, Marcel Mouly, Nils Von Dardel, Tahia Halim, Othon Friesz, Charles Camoin, Henri Manguin, Henri Evenepoel, Neo-Fauvism, Rik Wouters, Green Stripe, Blue Nude, Jean Puy, Self-Portrait in a Striped T-Shirt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 127. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: in museums: Henri Matisse (French pronunciation: ; 31 December 1869 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three seminal artists of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. Woman Reading, 1894, Museum of Modern Art, ParisHenri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France, he grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Picardie, France, where his parents owned a seed business. He was their first son. In 1887 he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. He first started to paint in 1889, when his mother had brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis. He disco...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=60203 ... Read more

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Chapters: André Derain, Georges Guibourg, Faudel, Sophie de Condorcet, Jacques Tati, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, Charles-Victor Prévot, Vicomte D'arlincourt, Georges Mandel, Shy'm, Andrée Borrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Criquette Head-Maarek, Robert Aron, Jean-Louis Barrault, Maxime Partouche, La Fouine, S. G. Sender, Laura Georges, Gérard Fromanger, Nicolas Todt, Jacques Perret, Arnaud Boetsch, Jean-Paul Mendy, Sébastien Rouault, Laurent Romejko, Mehdi Kacem, Mounir Obbadi, Maurice Thiriet, Pascal Barré, Mireille Havet, Roméo Calenda, Patrick Barré, Gaston Moch, Claude Ursule Gency. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Faudel () , born Faudel Belloua ( ) on June 6, 1978 in Mantes-la-Jolie, is a French singer of Algerian descent, considered the "Prince of Raï". He grew up in the suburbs of Paris, where he picked up his musical talents from his grandmother who taught him traditional Algerian music. His first public singing experience was during a family wedding celebration in Oran, Algeria. Faudel started to cover the popular tracks by Cheb Khaled and Cheb Mami at 12, after which he soon fronted the popular band "Les Etoiles du Raï". His debut album, Baida, catapulted him to fame. He has also performed with Khaled and Rachid Taha on the live album 1,2,3 Soleils. His other albums include Samra and his album Un Autre Soleil (released Sept. 2003) and, most recently, Mundial Corrida (2006). He also has acted in a few roles, including Happenstance (Le Battement d'ailes du papillon) with Audrey Tautou. The French music scene, long renowned as a thriving centre for world music, has now become a refuge for Algerian Rai stars. Faced with repression and death threats in their homeland, a number of top Algerian Rai stars have now set up home in Paris and l...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1148124 ... Read more

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Chapters: Alumni of the Académie Julian, Faculty of the Académie Julian, Fernand Léger, Alphonse Mucha, Cecilia Beaux, André Derain, Beatrice Wood, Les Nabis, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Thomas Hart Benton, J. C. Leyendecker, Gutzon Borglum, Georges Emile Lebacq, Félix Vallotton, Jean Dubuffet, Charles Demuth, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Charles W. Bartlett, C. F. Goldie, Ernest Peixotto, Edward Clark Potter, Colin Campbell Cooper, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Maurice Denis, René Schützenberger, Francis Cadell, Henrietta Rae, R. H. Ives Gammell, Pierre Bonnard, Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, William Mcgregor Paxton, Paul Sérusier, Frederick Ruckstull, Henri Bouchard, Jean-Paul Laurens, Alexander Rummler, Jenny Nyström, Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar, Thomas Dewing, Henri Chapu, Roland Hinton Perry, Amélie Beaury-Saurel, Frederick William Sievers, Paul Ranson, Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Gustave Boulanger. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 202. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (French pronunciation: , vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body. Although he created an idealized world, his almost photo-realistic style was popular with rich art patrons. He was very famous in his time but today his subject matter and technique receive relatively little attention compared to the popularity of the Impressionists. William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. He seemed destined to join the family business but for the intervention of his uncl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=399747 ... Read more