Yes France has many great painters but, as if everything with France, it largely comes down to their country being the most populated in Europe.If we look into the most impactful painters, we find that France is not really up there.On this list for example we habe only one french artist, 3 Spaniards, and Italians and Dutch/Flemish
>>18429019*4 italians and dutch/flemish
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You can instantly tell that list is worthless because it features the paramount DEI paintress
>>18429038And?Claude Monet the only French painter present here isn't exactly a great classical painter, impressionism was judged harshly in his days.I think all those and Picasso and Van Gogh are crap, but it's irrelevant.
>>18429054>your list is worthless>And?You're a waste of oxygen.
>>18429019Yet, 3 out of those non-french people on your list fled their "artistic" shitholes to France and made their entire carrers there for some reason.And that's not even questioning the merit of this list, Van Gogh died a nobody, his popularity was almost an entirely XXth century revision.And let's not even question the "France was the most populated country" bit which was also not true. The HRE was almost always more populated than France, It was just (slighty) less unified than France after the middle ages, but even then It was not like France was this completely uniform thing either. The north of France (French Flanders), the East (Half of Lorraine and Alsace) and the West (Brittany) weren't French or even romance speaking majorities well over the XX Century.
>>18429060Picasso and Goya fled for political reasons and I'm not sure who the third is. And the latter did make most of his carreer in SpainYeah France and Paris was the center of european arts but if the best painters to live there are not french it's rather stale.The HRE was indeed more populated on paper but was in fact fragmented in numerous states, but I would agree that Germanics outside the Dutch and Flemish largely underperformed in the arts.
>>18429214>I'm not sure who the third isVan GoghDa Vinci also lived and died in France, but objectively most of his work was done in Italy
>>18429019The Frenchman's greatest skill is advertising himself
>>18429019>it largely comes down to their country being the most populated in Europeit's less so that than the fact that French culture was "standardized" and somewhat less original on average than that of other European peoples. >The French on the other hand, are essentially humanists with a feeling for form and good taste, who lay stress on the conscious and the intelligible and shun the unconscious, who cultivate balance and harmony at the expense of depth, and who are perennially unable to understand the alien and unfamiliar. They are essentially conformists for whom rites create patterns to which all should conform, and it is striking that the French have displayed the same enduring distrust of individual originality, the same aptitude at raising the general level of their culture rather than developing the exceptional talent. Theirs are essentially cultures of expression: the more perfect their outward expression, the more perfect their inner state of being. Every European country has had its intellectual giants: Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe. Against each of them, the French can align ten names, but all of them slightly inferior in the power of true originality and personality.
>>18429258Quite accurate description.
Paul Gauguin thought that his gift as a painter was inherited from his Peruvian (Criollo) grandmother.
The french were experts when it comes to producing beautiful women
