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Socialite 1920s12/10/2023 Surrealism came to the forefront in the 1920s cultural scene, bringing new forms of expression to poetry with authors like André Breton, whose Surrealist Manifesto appeared in 1924, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, and Robert Desnos. Art Surrealism The Elephant Celebes, Max Ernst 1921. In 1926, the facade of the Folies Bergère building was redone in Art Deco style by the artist Maurice Pico, adding it to the many Parisian theatres of the period in this architectural style. After World War I, the artists who had inhabited the guinguettes and cabarets of Montmartre invented post-Impressionism during the Belle Époque. Trumpeter Arthur Briggs played at L'Abbaye and transvestites frequented La Petite Chaumière. Montmartre was a major center of Paris nightlife and had been famous for its cafés and dance halls since the 1890s. Gertrude Stein also lived in Montparnasse during this period. Montparnasse was, he said, "the navel of the world". Later the American Henry Miller, like many other foreigners, gravitated to the rue Vavin and Boulevard Raspail. The painters of the School of Paris for example included among others Chaïm Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, and Marc Chagall, who were Lithuanian, Italian, and Russian, respectively. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, met and mingled in Paris with exiles from dictatorships in Spain and Yugoslavia. American writers of the Lost Generation, like F. Many artists settled there and frequented cabarets like Le Boeuf sur le Toit and the large brasseries in Montparnasse. The Rive Gauche, or left bank, of the Seine in Paris, was and is primarily concerned with the arts and the sciences. The Années folles in Montparnasse featured a thriving art and literary scene centered on cafés such as Brasserie La Coupole, Le Dôme Café, Café de la Rotonde, and La Closerie des Lilas as well as salons like Gertrude Stein's in the rue de Fleurus. On the Rive Gauche (left bank) the scene centered around cafés in Montparnasse while on the Rive Droite (right bank), the Montmartre area. ( December 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭafés around Paris became places where artists, writers, and others gathered. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. All these served as the precursors for the Années folles. Tristan Tzara's 1918 Dada manifesto and the resulting Dada movement were very much a product of the interbellum: "Dadaists both embraced and critiqued modernity, imbuing their works with references to the technologies, newspapers, films, and advertisements that increasingly defined contemporary life". Art nouveau extravagance began to evolve into Art Deco geometry after the First World War.Īndré Gide, who founded the Nouvelle Revue Française literary review in 1908, influenced Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. The Utopian positivism of the 19th century and its progressive creed led to unbridled individualism in France. Precursors Paris Expo 1925 Polish pavilion, Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, Paris 1925 In Germany, it is sometimes referred to as the Golden Twenties because of the economic boom that followed World War I. The same period is also referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age in the United States. It was coined to describe the social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of the period. The Années folles ( French pronunciation:, "crazy years" in French) was the decade of the 1920s in France. Josephine Baker, iconic figure of the Années folles.
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