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Prints, French Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France 
 This site is a companion to an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., "celebrating one of the most innovative periods in the history of color printmaking." It presents 15 images of 18th century color prints, primarily replicas of works by painters such as Boucher and Fragonard. http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/colorfulinfo.htm Topics: Last updated Dec 8, 2003 Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio
Website companion to a 1997 exhibit of a 1929 "portfolio of vividly colored lithographs titled 'Le Tumulte Noir' ('The Black Craze') which captured the exuberant jazz music and dance that dazzled Paris" when Josephine Baker and her troupe, La Revue Négre, performed in Paris in the mid-1920s. Includes historical background and images of 14 lithographs, which are a "marvelous achievement of Art Deco graphic design." From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/noir/ Topics: Schools of Art Last updated Mar 2, 2006 |
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