Romano Zanotti, an essential figure of European kinetic art. His work is part of the kinetic art movement, heir to futurism and geometric abstraction, which explores visual phenomena, the perception of movement and the optical effects of colour.

Kinetic art experienced a major expansion during the 1960s, extending the research initiated by Futurism and geometric abstraction.

Michel Cadoret de l'Epineguen was an important representative of French painting in the 50s and 60s, in his time he was distinguished by art critics and was a friend of Alexander Calder. He spent much of his life in Mexico and the United States, so much so that he was called the most American of French painters by the art critic Pierre Courthion.

From the end of the Second World War onwards, the newly found freedom became fertile ground for artistic creation. Abstract painting and surrealism initially struggled to find their place, yet the 1950s in France soon became the decade of lyrical abstraction, embodied by artists such as Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, and Georges Mathieu. Their canvases, charged with gesture and intensity, defined a new language of painting that sought to transcend figuration and embody pure e

César Baldaccini, known as "César" is a French sculptor born in Marseille in 1921 and died in Paris in 1998. He is classified in the movement of the "new realism" resulting in 1960 from a declaration of a group of artists among whom Tinguely, Arman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mimo Rottela, César and which was defined by the historian of art Pierre Restany.