Category: Art and Artists

The arts and crafts of France. Meet the skilled craftsmen in Dordogne who are keeping the tradition of handmade pastels alive and make them the ...

If you were to ask who the most famous, highly paid artist of the 19th century was in France, the names Ingres, Manet, Monet, Renoir, ...

Today, smiles are seen as an indication of friendliness, happiness, or affection. However, for most of recorded art history, artists’ representations of the wide smile ...

The Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval is one of the most extraordinary buildings in France. A palace built from pebbles by a postman – an ...

It was in June of 1840, the month of roses, when Pierre-Joseph Redouté died suddenly at the age of eighty. His coffin was laid to ...

The mere mention of the word ‘Paris’ can conjure a vision of rows of handsome Hausmann stone buildings – some of them sober and classically ...

Artist Sonia Delauney moved to Paris from the Ukraine in the early 1900s where her art was hugely influential… When we think of the defining ...

In 2015, artist Paul Rafferty began a project to find the locations of Sir Winston Churchill’s painting locations for a book. His focus was the ...

In the 1880s, French artist Georges Seurat was using tiny points of colour to create paintings that conveyed a sense of calmness, including slowly flowing ...

Every now and again, when chatting to French friends they’ll drop in a sentence that contains the words “the 7th Art” or maybe “the 9th ...