Word: barbizon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have such a vast reputation? Largely because he was seen as a living bridge between the classical tradition of French landscape and contemporary painting, whether by contemporary you meant the Barbizon painters of the mid-19th century, like Theodore Rousseau and Charles Daubigny, or the more recent vision of Monet and the Impressionists. Corot's career began in the 1820s, at a time when classical landscape--the ideal scene with temples, ruins and mellow boscage, populated by figures out of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas...
...beauty itself. Yet his attachment to rural images from earlier French art, particularly the earthy fields of Millet, is pervasive and obvious; some of his "Texturologies" might as well be exaggeratedly close-up paintings of the life of the soil done by a microbiologist under the spell of the Barbizon school...
Asians are under-represented in the fashion world and it is one of the many areas that we need to explore. I don't expect people to drop everything and transfer from Harvard to Barbizon, but this show was to make Asian Americans think more carefully about the doors that are open to them...
COROT TO MONET: THE RISE OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN FRANCE, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH. The lush greens and pastoral beauty of rural France are explored through the works of over 100 19th century Barbizon painters, including such as Daubigny, Millet and Pissarro. Through April...