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Paris
at that time embraced la Dolce Vita, lightness and gaiety. Optimism was
rife since the success of the International Exhibition of 1889, for which
the Eiffel Tower was constructed. National pride also took expression in
the constitution of a new colonial empire which offered so it was believed
every perspective. Paris was thus the world`s creative capital, of the fashionable
plastic arts, not forgetting theatre and cinema. Artists from the whole
world, often later naturalised, installed themselves. Writers such as Ionesco,
Cioran, Kessel, Troyat, Julian Green, and also painters and sculptors such
as Modigliani, Picasso, Dali, Miro, Chagall, Soustine, de Stael, Mondrian,
Giacometti, Foujita, and Brancusi They found themselves alongside French
artists such as Bonnard, Braque, Léger, Matisse and Utrillo |