French Art

Picture

- the Middle Ages-
Georges de La Tour (1593 to 1652) - La Tour is a painter in Lorraine of 17th century. He had painted “The cheat with the ace of diamonds”, “St Joseph (1642, Louvre)”.



- Rococo style (18th century) –
Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721)
“Madame de Pompadour(1755,Louvre)” is famous portrait of Rococo era. This picture was painted by Maurice Quentin de La Tour.



- Neoclassicism -
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867)” Grande Odalisque (1814, Louvre)”



Jacques-Louis David(1784 - 1825) – David had painted famous picture what is ” Napoleon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass”. His picture had printing textbook of history in Japanese School.



- Impressionism -
Claude Monet(1840 - 1926) – Monet is typical painter of impressionists. For example,”Impression, soleil levant (1872)”, ”Seerosenteich(1908)”






Sculpture
Auguste Rodin – Rodin is typical sculptor in France of 19th century. For example, the thinker, The Burghers of Calais, The Gates of Hell. The Thinker is “kangaeru hito” in Japanese.







Cinema
Cannes Film Festival – It is held in Cannes in May every year. It is most authoritative international film festival in the world. Highest prize is called “Palme d'Or”. Highest prize is selected into about 20 films. ”The Class(Laurent Cantet, France)”is selected in 2008.



Source : Wikipedia

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival

Culture

France





History








French revolution ( 1789–1799 )





Religion

70% people is Catholic in france.

Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame is French for Our Lady.This is a typical church of Catholic in France.












Geography








Burgundy is famous vineyard in the world.


Burgundy has been known as the heart of France, owing to its geographical location.




Burgundy



Art

Lovre is one of the world's most visited art museums, an historic monument, and a national symbol.

Louvre museum in Paris.






Eiffel Tower was build at the place of a world fair in Paris. Tour’s height is 300 meters. Gustave Eiffel designed.




Eiffel Tower (1889)



Climate

North erea is the cold.
South erea is the warm.

TRAVEL TOPICS

History
The name “France” comes from Latin Francia, which literally means “land of the Franks” or “Frankland”.

Geography
France's total land area, with its overseas departments and territories (excluding Adélie Land) , is 674,843 square kilometres (260,558 sq mi) , 0.45% of the total land area on Earth. However, France possesses the second-largest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the world, covering 11,035,000 square kilometres (4,260,000 sq mi) , approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world, just behind the United States (11,351,000 km² / 4,383,000 sq mi) and ahead of Australia (8,232,000 km² / 3,178,000 sq mi).

Government
The French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic with strong democratic traditions. The constitution of the Fifth Republic was approved by referendum on 28 September 1958. It greatly strengthened the authority of the executive in relation to parliament. The executive branch itself has two leaders: the President of the Republic, who is elected directly by universal adult suffrage for a 5-year term (formerly 7 years) and is the Head of State, and the Government, led by the president-appointed Prime Minister.

Luxembourg Palace
Religion
France is a secular country as freedom of religion is a constitutional right, although some religious doctrines such as Scientology, Children of God, the Unification Church, and the Order of the Solar Temple are considered cults. According to a January 2007 poll by the Catholic World News: 51% identified as being Catholics, 31% identified as being agnostics or atheists. (Another poll gives atheists proportion equal to 27%), 10% identified as being from other religions or being without opinion, 4% identified as Muslim, 3% identified as Protestant, 1% identified as Jewish.

Notre-Dame