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Arman

1928 - 2005

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Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French and American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (cachets, allures d'objet) to using them as the artworks themselves. He is best known for his Accumulations and destruction/recomposition of objects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arman is the 496th most popular painter (up from 520th in 2019), the 1,514th most popular biography from France (up from 1,576th in 2019) and the 99th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arman ranks 496 out of 2,023. Before him are Maria Prymachenko, Matthäus Merian, Grant Wood, Guo Xi, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, and Eugène Atget. After him are Francisco Pacheco, Parrhasius, Leonor Fini, Carlo Dolci, John La Farge, and Anselm Feuerbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Arman ranks 99. Before him are Jim Lovell, Colin Chapman, Erik Bruhn, Marco Ferreri, Hubert Selby Jr., and Hans Blix. After him are Roddy McDowall, Christa Ludwig, Ernest Simoni, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Đorđe Martinović incident, and Michel Serrault. Among people deceased in 2005, Arman ranks 60. Before him are Robert Sheckley, Ibrahim Ferrer, Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Wim Duisenberg, Ephraim Kishon, and Carlo Maria Giulini. After him are Emmanuelle Arsan, Urie Bronfenbrenner, George Dantzig, William Westmoreland, Ba Jin, and Vincent Schiavelli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arman ranks 1,514 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe de Gaulle (1921), Julien Duvivier (1896), Marcel Petiot (1897), Victor Noir (1848), Henri Cartan (1904), and Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839). After him are Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz (1936), Étienne Mourrut (1939), Adalbert of Magdeburg (910), Fabien Barthez (1971), Adela of Normandy (1065), and Henri Murger (1822).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Arman ranks 99. Before him are Jules Chéret (1836), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), Ernest Meissonier (1815), Séraphine Louis (1864), and Eugène Atget (1857). After him are Fernand Cormon (1845), Jean Clouet (1480), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), André Lhote (1885), Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754), and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807).

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