JAZZ AGE PARIS IN ART AND LITERATURE - A PANORAMIC VIEW FROM POST-IMPRESSIONISM TO PICASSO
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Paris artists of the early 20th century encompass Post-Impressionists like Bonnard and Vulliard, major Fauves or Cubists like Matisse, Picasso, and Juan Gris, the modernists Leger, De Chirico, and Mondrian, and the émigré artists of Montparnasse like Pascin, Soutine, and Modigliani. Following Impressionism, a new avant-garde would reign in Paris, which became the world capital of art. We will look at their work, the times - "crazy years" between the wars, and the related literature of Joyce, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. What they all had in common was not a particular style, but a response to the Paris zest for all things new and fervent creativity: each new idea stimulated the next, making this period, arguably, the most fruitful in aesthetic invention of any age in history.