Mar 14, 2017 · His posters featured cheerful, lightly clad, often eight-feet tall beauties who became known as Chérettes. Chéret’s women were inspired by the well-heeled, garden-party women of Rococo paintings, a glorious age in France immortalized by artists like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Antoine Watteau.

French graphics and poster designs have long captured the imagination of art enthusiasts and language learners alike. These visual masterpieces provide a unique window into French culture, history, and language.

The French poster was revived by the arrival of a young Italian, Leonetto Cappiello. His caricature drawings became the favorite of Parisian celebrities, and by 1905 he began to create a more simple and direct poster style than his Art Nouveau predecessors.

Do your students wonder why they should learn French? This poster set is perfect for your French classroom. It highlights 8 reasons why it is beneficial to learn French and using the template provided, you can add more of your own reasons.

The pioneering French poster artist Jules Chéret (1836 – 1932) is credited with producing the first colour lithograph posters in 1866, having finessed the black and white process invented by Alois Senefelder in 1798.

Art Nouveau posters and graphic arts flourished and became an important vehicle of the style, thanks to the new technologies of color lithography and color printing, which allowed the creation of and distribution of the style to a vast audience in Europe, the United States and beyond.

At the end of the 19 th century, France witnessed the first great era of poster art, sometimes called its golden age. Bright and bold and found everywhere along the boulevards of fin-de-siècle Paris, the color posters were heralded as a new art form, a brilliant fusion of craft and commerce.

Project Summary: Students will use the inquiry method to explore the question “Why take French?” Students will develop further research questions, explore videos and texts, and describe the benefits of learning French as a second language. Students will create a poster with illustrations, words and facts that will demonstrate their learning.

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