Julien Alvard (1916–1974) was a French art critic known for having launched a modern art movement that he baptized

Nuagisme Nuagisme (literally Cloudism) is a French art-critical term for an art movement that was advanced in the 1950s by French art critic Julien Alvard (1916–1974) in which young French and foreign painters participated in France. Nuagisme lasted betw ...

in which young French and foreign painters participated in France. Nuagisme lasted between 1955 and 1973. Most Nuagisme exhibitions were organized between 1955 and 1973 by Alvard.Pichon, Michèle. 2006
Quand le peintre rêve les éléments : Approche bachelardienne de l’Abstraction naturaliste
(Conférence prononçée le 20 octobre 2006 au sein du Groupe d’Études et de Recherches Épistémologiques, Paris) The painters participating in these exhibitions were not always the same, but were regularly influenced both by American Abstract expressionism and by the

Japanese painting is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competitio ...

and

Chinese painting Chinese painting () is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as ''guó huà'' (), meaning "national painting" or "native painting", as opposed to Western style ...

traditions. For example, Nuagisme is marked by the use of emptiness, which suggests infinity.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alvard, Julien French art critics 1916 births 1974 deaths French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers