Les peintres de Montparnasse

Montparnasse a été durant les Années folles (1920-1930) le centre de la vie culturelle, avec Picasso, Matisse et Modigliani. Montparnasse became famous in the 1920s, referred to as les Années Folles (the Crazy Years), and the 1930s as the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris. From 1910 to the start of World War II, Paris' artistic circles migrated to Montparnasse as the alternative to the Montmartre district which had been the intellectual breeding ground for the previous generation of artists. The Paris of Zola, Manet, France, Degas, Fauré, a group that had assembled more on the basis of status affinity than actual artistic tastes,[citation needed] indulging in the refinements of Dandyism, was at the opposite end of the economic, social, and political spectrum from the emigrant artists who inhabited Montparnasse. Sources : André Warnod - Les berceaux de la jeune peinture Dictionnaire universel de la peinture – Le Robert Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Jean Mineraud – Les dessous du visible