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Jules Cheret

Jules Cheret (1836 - 1932) was active/lived in France.  Jules Cheret is known for Colorful advertising posters, lithography, painting, sculpture.

Considered the creator of the modern approach to poster making, Jules Cheret did work with coloration and perspective that "caused a revolution, a color revolution" and likely inspired the Fauve painters whose colorful works were first publicly exhibited in 1933, the year after his death.   Because of his innovations, "there was fun and fantasy, glimpses of laughter, whirling of dancers decorating the kiosks of Paris, dazzling the senses and creating a movement of gaiety that had not existed before."

Jules Cheret, who was a painter in oil and pastel as well as lithographer, was raised in Paris in a poverty level family of artistans.  His schooling ended when he was age 13, and his father, who was a typographer, arranged a three-year apprenticeship with a lithographer, who could teach the young man what was then the prevailing method of design reproduction.  Cheret did much research and experimentation with design processes, and in 1858, created   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2901 characters.]  Artist bio

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