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Arman

1928 - 2005

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Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arman has received more than 371,326 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Arman is the 520th most popular painter (down from 496th in 2019), the 1,576th most popular biography from France (down from 1,556th in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Painter.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arman ranks 520 out of 2,023. Before him are Qi Baishi, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Lyonel Feininger, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, and Théodore Chassériau. After him are Willem van Aelst, Stefano di Giovanni, Mi Fu, Giuseppe Crespi, Michael Wolgemut, and Séraphine Louis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Arman ranks 99. Before him are Burt Bacharach, Gustav Leonhardt, James Ivory, Colin Chapman, Michel Serrault, and Vladimir Beara. After him are James Earl Ray, Ida Haendel, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Sol LeWitt, Seymour Papert, and Torben Ulrich. Among people deceased in 2005, Arman ranks 59. Before him are Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Robert Sheckley, Peter Benenson, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Smalley, and Carlo Maria Giulini. After him are Aenne Burda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Moog, John Garang, Henry Taube, and Maurice Trintignant.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arman ranks 1,576 out of 6,770. Before him are André Martinet (1908), Emmanuel Petit (1970), Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (1465), Jean Chardin (1643), Corinne Cléry (1950), and Audrey Tautou (1976). After him are Louis Couturat (1868), Patrice Chéreau (1944), Edmond Debeaumarché (1906), Youri Djorkaeff (1968), Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (1165), and Frank Darabont (1959).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Arman ranks 105. Before him are Louise Abbéma (1853), Jean Clouet (1480), André Lhote (1885), Eugène Atget (1857), Paloma Picasso (1949), and Hubert Robert (1733). After him are Séraphine Louis (1864), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836), Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Émile Friant (1863), and Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848).

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