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Author Adams, Steven

Title The Barbizon school & the origins of impressionism / Steven Adams
Published London : Phaidon Press, 1994

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Description 240 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
Series Paintings of the western world
Paintings of the western world
Contents Ch. 1. Landscape painting in Restoration France, 1815-30 -- Ch. 2. Panoramas, parks and porcelain: nature and popular culture -- Ch. 3. Landscape painting during the July Monarchy -- Ch. 4. Rural images and the 1848 Revolution -- Ch. 5. Barbizon painting and Impressionism
Summary The names of Theodore Rousseau, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena and Georges Michel have virtually been forgotten, and the originality of their painting techniques and impulsive brush work attributed to those who later exploited them. In this first survey of the Barbizon School for twenty years, Steven Adams re-evaluates the generation of landscape painters that preceded the Impressionists and illustrates the direct relationship between the paintings of Corot and Monet, Millet and Van Gogh. He examines the development of landscape painting in nineteenth century France from the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1816 to the outbreak of the Franco Prussian War in 1870, and discusses the cultural and political changes that influenced a more naturalistic painting style fifty years before the term 'Impressioniste' was first heard in Paris
In 1863 Claude Monet and Frederic Bazille left Paris for Barbizon, a small village on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, forty miles south-west of Paris. They came to this district to paint from nature in the open air and to make studies for landscape paintings, far from the pressures of city life. Together with Renoir and Sisley, they were following a well-trodden path taken by painters and tourists some thirty years earlier. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot had been studying the fleeting effects of nature in the forest as early as 1822, and in the 1840s Charles-Emile Jacque, Gustave Courbet, Charles-Francois Daubigny and Jean-Francois Millet made frequent visits to the area, some later taking up permanent residence. Like many innovators, the Barbizon painters have attracted less attention than their followers
Analysis France
Paintings Special subjects Landscapes
France
Paintings Special subjects Landscapes
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 236) and index
Subject Barbizon school.
Barbizon school -- Influence.
Impressionism (Art) -- France -- History.
Impressionism (Art) -- France.
Impressionist artists -- France.
Landscape painting, French -- 19th century.
Painting, French -- 19th century.
Painting, French.
LC no. 95128892
ISBN 0714829196
(paperback)
Other Titles Barbizon school and the origins of impressionism