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Introduction to the Arts in France A very rich cultural heritage
Architecture
Literature
Music
Painting/Sculpture
Cinema
Architecture
From vestiges of Roman
buildings e.g. many 2000 years
old Roman amphithtres still in
use today
To ultra modern designs such asthe Centre Pompidou in Metz
Roman amphitheatres
still in use today
Orange Lyon (Fourvire)
CathedralsNotre Dame de Paris
12th-13th centuries Saint Jean, Lyon12-14th centuries
ChateauxChteau du Sou (Rhne)
14th century
Chenonceau (Loire Valley)
16th century
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19th century buildingsEiffel Tower Arc de Triomphe
19th century buildingsOpra de Paris Universit Lyon 3
20th century buildingsThe Louvre Pyramid The Grande Arche de la Dfense
21st century BuildingsViaduct de Millau (2004) Centre Pompidou - Metz (2010)
Literature
Marie de France (12th century)
Written in
Anglo-Norman
(old French
language)
Literature
16th centuryFrancois Rabelais
Gargantua et Pantagruel Ronsard
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Literature
17th centuryCyrano de Bergerac Molire
Literature
17th CenturyMadame de Lafayette
Literature
18th centuryVoltaire (Candide)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(The Social contract)
Literature
18th Century
Olympe de Gouje
1st feminist!
Payed a heavy
price for
fighting
womens cause
Literature
19th centuryVictor Hugo
(Hunchback of Notre Dame)Alexandre Dumas
(Count of Monte Cristo)
Literature
19th centuryHonor de Balzac
(La comdie Humaine)
Emile Zola
(Lassomoir, Germinal)
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Literature
19th centuryPaul Verlaine/Arthur Rimbaut
(Symbolist poets)
Gustave Flaubert
(Romantic realist)
Literature
19th CenturyGeorge Sand Louise Michel
Literature
20th centuryMarcel Proust
(In search of lost time)
Jean-Paul Sartre/Simone de Beauvoir
(existentialist philosophers)
Literature
20th centuryAlbert Camus
(1913-1960 - The Outsider)
Antoine de Saint Exupry(1900-1944 The Aviator, Southern Mail , Night Flight,
the Little Prince)
Literature
20th century
Marguerite Duras
With Alain Robbe-
Grillet et Nathalie
Sarraute, created a
new genre:
nouveau roman,
The lover
Moderato
cantabile
Literature
20th century
Marguerite Yourcenar1st woman acadmicienne
LAcadmie Franaise:
founded in 1635 to protect
French language
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17 Nobel Prizes for French literature since 1901 1901 - Sully Prudhomme
(The first Nobel Prize in
literature) 1904 - Frdric Mistral
(wrote in Occitan)
1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck(Belgian)
1915 - Romain Rolland
1921 - Anatole France
1927 - Henri Bergson
1937 - Roger Martin duGard
1947 - Andr Gide
1952 - Franois Mauriac
1957 - Albert Camus
1960 - Saint-John Perse 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
(declined the prize)
1969 - Samuel Beckett(Irish, wrote in English andFrench)
1985 - Claude Simon
2000 - Gao Xingjian
Contemporary writersBernard Henri Levy Michel Houellebecq
Contemporary writersTatiana de Rosnay
Text
Bandes dessines: a very popular art form
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Composers
Hector Berlioz(1803-69 - Symphonie Fantastique) Georges Bizet(1838-75 - Carmen)
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ComposersLeo Delibes
(1836 -1891 - Coppelia, Lakm)
Jacques Offenbach(1819-1880 Tales of Hoffman)
ComposersDebussy
(1862-1908 Clair de Lune)
Ravel (1878-1937 Bolero)
Saint Saens(1835-1921 -Carnival of the animals)
Contemporary musicJean-Michel Jarre Gipsy Kings
Famous abroad
unknown to French young people?
Edith Piaf Charles Aznavour
Painters- 17th centuryNicolas Poussin (1594-1665) George de la Tour (1593-1662)
Painters: 18th centuryEugene Delacroix (1798-1863) Francois Boucher (1703-1770)
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Painters: 19th century
Edouard Manet
(1832-1883)
Berthe Morisot
(1841-1895)
Painters: 19th century
Camille Pissaro
(1830-1903)
Paul Czanne
(1839-1906)
Painters: 19th centuryEdgar Degas
(1834-1917)Claude Monet
(1840-1926)
Painters: 19th century
Pierre-Auguste Renoir(1841-1919)
Paul Gauguin
(1848-1903)
Painters: 19th century
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec(1864-1901)
George Seurat(1859-1891)
Painters: 20th centuryPierre Bonnard
1867-1947
Marie Laurencin
1883-1956
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PaintersGeorges Braque
(1882-1963)
Henri Matisse
(1869-1954)
PaintersMarc Chagall
(1887-1985)
Bernard Buffet
(1928-1999)
SculptureAuguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Camille Claudel (1864-1943)
French Cinema France : Birth country of cinema. Moving pictures invented
by the Lumire brothers in Lyon - dubbed the fathers ofcinema
Created the worlds first cinema inside a caf in Paris in 1895
Early 20th century: Charles Path produced so many movingpictures that he became known as the Napoleon of film.
20s and 30s: Because of war and recession not muchhappening apart from a few film makers: Marcel Carn, RenClair, Jacques Tati and Jean Renoir.
Late 1950s-1970s: New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) with JeanGoddard, Louis Malle, Francois Truffaud and Chabrolamongst others.
French Cinema All about artistic integrity Usually low budget, few special effects, all about stories,
narratives and character development
Most French people support the idea that it is legitimate toprotect cultural activities from pure market laws and it is therole of the State to protect them and if necessary subsidisethem with public money. This is why there is a Minister forculture.
Contrary to the USA where a movie is seen as anentertainment and its success is measured in $, in France amovie is considered a message sent by a director for ourreflection. Its success is measured by the number of viewers.
French Cinema
The French movie industry is third in the world after USA andIndia and France is the only Western country where foreignfilms represent less than 50% of the market : in Germany,Italy and UK, they represent more than 80%.
The number of Art Houses in France is much higher thananywhere else in the world and there is not only Cannes, butthere are several very interesting festivals which illustratethe interest of the French for cinema (Deauville and itsFestival of American Cinema, Nantes and its Festival ofAfrican, Asian and Latin-American Cinema, etc...).
With 5,366 cinemas, France enjoys the highest number ofscreens/million inhabitants : 89 (vs. 60 in Germany, 56 in UKand 24 in Japan).
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French Cinema Huge competition from American block busters but
French films are still very popular and about 100 or soare made each year.
300 different films shown every week in Paris.
Even if audiences are declining, French people still tend
to go to the cinema a lot compared with other nations.
The French equivalent of the Oscars Awards is called
"les Csars" and the ceremony takes place in February
too.
The Cannes film festival is a very important global event.
Typical genresRomantic Drama: Heartbreaker, Ive loved you
so longComedy: Amelie, Le diner de cons
Society: La Haine, The Class
Biography: Coco before Chanel, La vie en rose
Thriller: Tell no one, Mesrine Public enemy No
1
A few French films popular abroadAMELIE TELL NO ONE
A few French films popular abroadI VE LOVED YOU SO LONG COCO BEFORE CHANEL
A few French films popular abroad
LA VIE EN ROSE THE CLASS
A few French films popular abroad
The artist (2011) Black & white
Silent film
Won 5 Oscars in 2012:
Best director
Best Actor
Best film
Best costume
Best original score
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A few French films popular abroadRust and Bone (2012) Amour (2012)
A few famous French actors
Alain Delon Gerard Depardieu
A few famous French actorsRomain Duris
Daniel Auteil
A few famous French actors
Vincent Cassel Jean Reno
A few famous French actressesCatherine Deneuve Brigitte Bardot
A few famous French actressesAudrey Tautou Juliette Binoche
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A few famous French actressesMarion Cotillard Emmanuelle Beart
Two famous Anglo- French actresses
Charlotte Rampling Kristin Scott Thomas
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