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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 345,149 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Arman is the 497th most popular painter (down from 458th in 2019), the 1,561st most popular biography from France (down from 1,408th in 2019) and the 99th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arman ranks 497 out of 1,421Before him are Catharina van Hemessen, Moïse Kisling, Leonor Fini, Pierre Auguste Cot, Edward Steichen, and Sebastiano Ricci. After him are Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Kurt Westergaard, Gu Kaizhi, Michael Wolgemut, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and Guo Xi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Arman ranks 98Before him are Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Cy Twombly, Hans Modrow, Walter Mondale, Robert Sheckley, and Sol LeWitt. After him are Christa Ludwig, Edward Albee, Joe Jackson, Seymour Papert, Bernard Buffet, and Pierre Mauroy. Among people deceased in 2005, Arman ranks 58Before him are Emmanuelle Arsan, John DeLorean, Barbara Bel Geddes, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, William Westmoreland, and Robert Sheckley. After him are Victoria de los Ángeles, Dana Elcar, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Will Eisner, Robert Moog, and Carlo Maria Giulini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arman ranks 1,561 out of 6,011Before him are Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (1594), Claude Garamond (1499), Gilles de Roberval (1602), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319), and Adam de la Halle (1245). After him are Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754), Liane de Pougy (1869), Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (1165), Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (1360), Adalbert of Magdeburg (910), and Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (1756).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Arman ranks 99Before him are Ernest Meissonier (1815), Hubert Robert (1733), Jean Clouet (1480), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), and Pierre Auguste Cot (1837). After him are Bernard Buffet (1928), Françoise Gilot (1921), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836), Paloma Picasso (1949), Christian Boltanski (1944), and Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803).