Many french people spend their time visiting museums and assisting to art events, there are many streets in some regions, specially in Paris, where you will find a painter who can make a retrait of you, that's one of the reasons french are proud of their country and heritage.

In 450 B.C developed the Celtic Art in France, this kind of art includes a variety of styles, and elements from other countries, it is ornamental, and often involves complex simbolism, it doesn't use straight lines and simetry is used only occasionally. This art drew on native, classical and perhaps, the Mediterranean, oriental sources.

The Franks dinasty had its own art style, it was called the Merovingian, and was developed between the fifth to eigth century, this art made important changes in the French art. Carolingian art belongs to the king Charles Martel king, from 750 to 900, and also in the reigns of Pippin the Younger, Charlemagne, and his immediate heirs—popularly known as the Carolingian Renaissance or the Pre-Romanesque period.

The Romanesque art style is representative of the Western Europe, and has a little influences from the italian art. Sculpture has influence from the Bizantine, Early Christian sculpture, and other elements of the Middle East countries, the most important sculptures are those located at the monastery of Saint Gall, despite of that there are more examples such as those in the Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne and the Standing Prophet at Moissac. The romanesque art was mostly characterized by having scenes from biblical history in their monumental doors, candle holders and baptismal fonts. French churches of Provence, Burgundy, and Aquitaine were adorned by sculptures adorning the statues and the facades.

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