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Histoire is simply the French word for history, but it also has the dual meaning of story. That's what art is. The history of our human story.
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Movie!Trivia from the film Tangled (2010): According to Glen Keane, the movie’s visual style (a three-dimensional painting) was greatly inspired by the Romantic painting “The Swing”, by the French rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard: “A fairy tale world has to feel romantic and lush, very painterly.” For a clear idea of what was intended, the animators duplicated the picture in 3D to achieve a shot containing depth and dimensions.
The movie’s visual style is the same as Toy Story, just replace the toys with fantasy. It definitely doesn’t have the...