Science and arts in France

Science and Arts in France

Science and technology

In France, many great inventors and scientists have been born, as Montgolfier brothers, who invented the hot air balloon; Lavoisier, who develops many progresses in chemistry, designed the actual measure units, etc.; Lumière brothers invented the cinema; and Louis Pasteur, a brilliants chemist who was very important during the fight in the XIX century about origin of life (he defended not spontaneous life creations)..

Arts

Literature

France is the country with more Nobel Prizes in Literature in the whole world (fourteenth). Francophone literature began with two writers Maurice Maeterlinck (from Belgium) and Senghor (from Senegal). And the main French writers has been Victor Hugo (developer of romantic style in France) and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a Second World War war pilot who wrote “Le Petit Prince”.

Painting

Classic French Paint began in the XVII century, with the artists Poussin and Lorrain; the next style, rococo, had got authors like Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard. Romantic style was starred by Delacroix and Géricault. The realistic style (scenery paintings, in general, and works that represented the situation of France in the XIX century) was developed by Millet and Courbet. The really famous painting style, the Impressionism (that wanted to catch the feelings and first emotions that something suggests to you) started with Édouard Manet (“Le soleil levant”). Modern (XX century styles) as was fauvism (strange colors to paint normal things) develops with Matisse, and cubism was starred by Picasso (Spanish) and Braque.

Architecture

The primitive architecture style in France was inherit by Celts (in stones constructions) . The classic Greece and Latin architecture have got some examples like the “Pont du Gard” in Nimes.

More recent style was the Gothic, created in France, captured in the main cathedrals as Reims, Chartres, Amiens, Notre Dame and Strasbourg. The following architecture was the Renaissance style, in Foitainebleau Palace. Now, the Pantheon and the Louvre Palace has got baroque style. Finally modern constructions began to be built after the Eiffel Tower , and the most XX century architect was “Le Corbusier” , who designed many innovate and functional buildings (residences the most) like the famous “Villa Savoy”.