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-	[[Image:Degenerate art exhibition in Nazi Germany.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Nazi Germany]] disapproved of contemporary German art movements such as [[Expressionism]] and [[Dada]] and on [[July 19]], [[1937]] it opened the [[Degenerate art]] travelling [[exhibition]] in the [[Haus der Kunst]] in [[Munich]], consisting of [[modernist]] artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art, to inflame public opinion against [[modernity]].]]	+	#redirect[[Official culture]]
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-	[[Jacques-Louis David]] was effectively a [[dictator of the arts]] under the [[French Republic]]. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release, that of [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon I]]. It was at this time that he developed his '[[Empire style]]', notable for its use of warm [[Venice|Venetian]] [[colour]]s. David had a huge number of [[pupil]]s, making him the strongest influence in [[French art of the 19th century]], especially academic [[Paris Salon|Salon]] painting.	+
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