His works are influenced by New Realism, an art movement founded in 1960 based on a term coined by French art critic Pierre Restany and whose members included Yves Klein, Arman, Jean Tinguely ...

SAO PAULO, June 26, 2009 (AFP) - A retrospective of French- and French-inspired art from 1860 to 1960 on display in Brazil is taking a liberal approach to its theme of "realism." The exhibition, ...

Dana Richardson finds inspiration in French realism for Starland Mural addition. Rob Hessler. ... She’d been doodling out several ideas for her piece for the new Fence Art Project, ...

The French pieces at the National Gallery of Art show the progression of art in France during the period of the French Revolution, around the 18th and 19th centuries. It begins with lesser-known ...

Gustave Courbet's best-known work "The Origin of the World", an up-close painting of a woman's pudenda, parted thighs and torso, was considered so scandalous it was kept hidden from public view ...

Albert Boime, an art historian, educator and author who evaluated art in its social and political context for new insights into French Neo-Classicism, Impressionism and other prominent art ...

Getty Museum director Timothy Potts calls it “sharp-edged … urban realism” and says the way it contrasts with artists like Monet and Renoir will help the museum show a “fuller picture of ...

The Columbia Museum of Art's latest, "French Moderns," features nearly 60 works by artists living in Paris, ... On the right-hand wall is an 1869 seascape by Realist painter Gustave Courbet.