The Barbizon School were a group of mid-19th-century landscape painters, based in the village of Barbizon in the forest of Fontainebleau just outside Paris. They were very popular in Europe and the USA a century ago. Many of the features which have come to be associated with Impressionism are also found in Barbizon painting: painting the fleeting effects of the everyday world; painting from life in the open air; and impulsive brushwork. The author examines landscape painting in the 50 years before the term "Impressioniste" was first heard in Paris. The work of the Barbizon painters, such as Corot, Daumier, Millet and Courbet, is set against the tumultuous political crises that overcame France during the first half of the 19th century.
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The group of French painters who came to be known as the Barbizon School took their name from the tiny village southwest of Paris where they often worked. Drawing their inspiration from 17th-century Dutch and more recent English landscape painting, the Barbizon painters developed a philosophy of landscape realism informed by the sociopolitical climate of the Bourbon Restoration. The coalescence in the 1840s of a "school" united in its opposition to Classical conventions was a signal event in the history of modern art, laying the groundwork for such later and more celebrated innovators as the Impressionists and the Fauves. Adams's book, a painstakingly researched and beautifully illustrated account of this important period in French history, is the first to appear in many years. He has taken particular care to discuss the stylistic and thematic antecedents of the school and to show how these influences are manifested in the work of individual painters. A superb investigation of a long-overshadowed subject; recommended for all collections.
Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Interesting, historical guide to Barbizon evolution,
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This review is from: The Barbizon School & the Origins of Impressionism (Hardcover)
Well thought out and intersting progression of the Barbizon school and its influence on impressionism, and the art world at large. Compelling historical account for the non-art lover as well.
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