School of Paris
Loose term for painters and artistic movements based in Paris during the early 20th century / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The School of Paris (French: École de Paris) refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.
Location | France, Israel, US |
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Major figures | Marc Chagall, Chaïm Soutine, Yitzhak Frenkel, Jules Pascin, Amedeo Modigliani |
The School of Paris was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1940 the city drew artists from all over the world and became a centre for artistic activity. School of Paris coined by André Warnod, was used to describe this loose community, particularly of non-French artists, centered in the cafes, salons and shared workspaces and galleries of Montparnasse.[1] Many artists of Jewish origin formed a prominent part of the School of Paris and later heavily influenced art in Israel.
Before World War I the name was also applied to artists involved in the many collaborations and overlapping new art movements, between post-Impressionists and pointillism and Orphism, Fauvism and Cubism. In that period the artistic ferment took place in Montmartre and the well-established art scene there. But Picasso moved away, the war scattered almost everyone, by the 1920s Montparnasse had become a center of the avant-garde. After World War II the name was applied to another different group of abstract artists.