School of Paris

School of Paris

Artistic Movements, Periods and Styles in 5 Points

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School of Paris

• It is neither a movement, nor a style, nor a period. It was a group of artists of very different aesthetic proposals that worked in Paris in the period among the two World Wars.
• Paris was at that time the capital of art. It attracted artists from all Europe and the world due to the presence of the great masters, a cultural environment full of galleries, critics and collectors, its economic stability and the absence of repression.
• These artists did not adhere to any movement in particular; they imprinted their strong personality to their works. Influences from different avant-garde movements, trends or styles and links to Post-impressionism, Primitivism, Expressionism, and Surrealism can be found in their works.
• In general, they had a frenetic, bohemian, energetic, dramatic, tortuous life. And they painted as they lived. To the point that some of them —Modigliani, Soutine, Utrillo, Pascin— were called “damned painters.”
• They shared some characteristics such as their strong artistic personality, extreme vitality and vibrant color. That is why, if we tried to pigeonhole them, we could say they are Expressionists.

Representative artists: Modigliani, Soutine, Utrillo, Chagall, Kisling, Pascin, Foujita.

Image: Time is a River without Banks (1939). Marc Chagall.

Recommended links:

Fundamental Painters of The School of Paris.

In the mind of Marc Chagall.

Expressionism.

The Avant-garde movements.

Modigliani.

Chaim Soutine.

Soutine’s Expressionist Landscape.

The Fundamental Difference Between the Absurd and the Magical Realism.

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