L'impressionismo moderno di Laurent Kerdalo, 1962

Kerdalo è lo pseudonimo del pittore Francese Laurent Parcelier, nato a Chamalières, celebre per il suo stile unico spesso definito come "impressionismo stilizzato" o "impressionismo moderno".

L'artista porta avanti una doppia identità pittorica utilizzando due firme distinte che si completano a vicenda:

👉 Con il nome Laurent Parcelier realizza opere più classiche, focalizzate su scene di genere impressioniste e luminosi paesaggi mediterranei o del sud della Francia.

Paul Éluard | Marina / Marine, 1951

Ti guardo e il sole si innalza

Presto ricoprirà la nostra giornata

Svegliati cuore e colori in mente

Per dissipare le pene della notte

Ti guardo tutto è spoglio

Fuori le barche hanno poca acqua

Bisogna dire tutto con poche parole

Il mare è freddo senza amore

Christophe Vacher, 1996 | The Long Sleep (detail)

Jacques Volpi, 1948 | Neo-Impressionist Expressionist painter

Jacques Volpi is a contemporary French painter born in Alès.

He is recognized as a master of Provençal palette knife painting.

His signature style blends Expressionism and Impressionism, using heavily textured oil paint to convey the vivid, changing atmospheres of southern France.

Rather than strictly documenting reality, Volpi captures subjective emotional responses through dynamic texture, lively movement, and intensely rich color palettes.

Volpi is deeply rooted in the Cévenole and Provençal traditions.

French Artists | Sitemap

French art spans thousands of years, evolving from prehistoric cave paintings into a dominant global force that shaped the trajectory of Western art history.

From the 17th to the mid-20th century, Paris was considered the center of the international art world, serving as the birthplace for groundbreaking movements like Impressionism, Rococo and Cubism.

Major Historical Movements

Gothic (12th-14th Century): Invented in France, this style produced architectural marvels and intricate stained-glass windows, seen in structures like the Chartres Cathedral.

Rococo (18th Century): Characterized by playful, ornate, and pastel-hued designs.

Key artists include Jean-Honoré Fragonard, famous for The Swing.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | La plage du Lavandou, 1894

Paul Cézanne | The Fishermen (Fantastic scene), 1875

"The Fishermen" (Fantastic scene) is an Impressionist oil on canvas painting created by Paul Cézanne in 1875.

It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

The critic Georges Rivière admired this painting at the 1877 Impressionist exhibition, writing:

"It is strikingly majestic and extraordinarily calm.

It seems that the scene takes place in [Cézanne's] memory while he turns the pages of his life".

Alphonse Osbert | Pittore simbolista

Alphonse Osbert (Parigi, 1857-1939) è stato un pittore Francese, esponente del Simbolismo.

Nato a Parigi nel 1857 in una famiglia della buona borghesia, entrò all'École des Beaux-Arts nell'atelier di Henri Lehmann, dove fu compagno di studi di Seurat e di Aman-Jean.

Gustave Caillebotte | Linge séchant, Petit Gennevilliers, 1888

Looking at "Linge séchant, Petit Gennevilliers" one almost feels the fresh breeze causing the white shirts on the clothesline to billow, flap and flutter like loose sails.

This airy picture is one of five works Caillebotte devoted to the motif of laundry drying on the line between 1888-892, while residing at his retreat in Petit Gennevilliers, a bucolic hamlet, half an hour by train away from central Paris.

Caillebotte and his brother Martial had purchased the property in 1881, after selling the family estate in Yerres, which had inspired many of Caillebottes’ earlier works.

Cesar Pattein | Wheat / Il grano, 1891

Son of a farmer, César Pattein (1850-1931) painted scenes of rustic life focusing on the happy times of the day with children laughing, playing and forgetting the toils of the hard day’s work.

Born in Steenvoorde, in northern France, César Pattein was raised among farmers and maintained a close connection to the rural region throughout his life.

He seldom traveled much further than Lille, with the occasional journey to Paris when exhibiting at the Salon.