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Dictionary definition: École de Paris
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- A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
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École de Paris (
School of Paris
).
A term that was originally applied to a number of artists of non-French origin, predominantly Jewish in background, who in the years immediately after the First World War lived in Paris and painted in figurative styles that might loosely be called poetic
Expressionism
, forming the most distinctive strand in French painting between
Cubism
and
Surrealism
.
Chagall
(a Russian),
Foujita
(a Japanese),
Kisling
(a Pole),
Modigliani
(an Italian),
Pascin
(a Bulgarian), and
Soutine
(a Lithuanian) are among the most famous artists embraced by the term. However, the meaning of the term was soon broadened (particularly outside France) to include all foreign artists ...