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com is a registered trademark of the ArtNet Worldwide Corporation, New York, NY. . Term applied particularly to mid-19th-century French sculpture with animal subject-matter. The beginnings of this genre as a significant phenomenon may be located in 1831, when three sculptors, ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE, C. Antecedents are numerous, but a comparable degree of concentration on animal subjects in sculpture is found only at the end of the 18th century, in the work of the English painter and sculptor George Garrard.

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. At first Maillol was a painter, and in the 1890s belonged to the small Nabi group, including Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard. Then he was attracted to decorative arts, making tapestries, and ceramics before taking up sculpture. Maillol's work revolutionised the art of sculpture, in the same way as Kandinsky, Matisse or Picasso transformed the art of painting. He broke with 19th century academism and his art, freed from the expression of passions and the representation of movement, rivalled the dramatic or ecstatic attitudes in Rodin's sculptures.
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