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France
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Visual Arts
France was central to the development of numerous artistic movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Fauvism. Artists such as Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso (Spanish-born but Paris-based), Salvador Dalí, and Henri Matisse produced revolutionary works that transformed artistic practice globally.[20]
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Landscape Painting
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Modern Transformations
The advent of photography in the mid-19th century challenged the documentary role of landscape painting. In response, movements like Impressionism turned away from detailed realism to capture momentary perceptions of light and atmosphere. Later, modern art movements used landscape as a vehicle for subjective expression.
The Fauves used arbitrary, non-local color to express inner feeling, detaching the painted landscape from observable reality. Abstract Expressionists, while seemingly …