Barbizon School And The Origins Of Impressionism; Author: Adams, Steve; Paperback

Author: Adams, Steve
Paperback; 137 Colour and 63 B&w Illustrations, Notes, Biblio
240 pages
Published: May 1997
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714836230
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The key painters associated with the Barbizon School -- Corot, Millet, Rousseau and Courbet -- are among the finest landscape artists of the nineteenth century. From their base at the village of Barbizon in the Forest of Fontainebleau, just outside Paris, they painted nature as they saw it, anticipating many of the techniques and effects of Impressionism. In this survey Steven Adams re-evaluates French landscape painting in the half-century before Impressionism, placing this 'return to nature' against the background of the rapid industrialization and political crises of the period.This group of pioneering artists, which included Corot, Daumier, Millet and Courbet, were at the forefront of landscape painting in France during the mid-nineteenth century, and played an important role in for the first time in paperback.The Barbizon School, which includes Corot, Daumer, Miller and Courbert, were at the forefront of landscape painting in mid 19th century France. This text examines the artists who played an important role in shaping what later became known as Impressionism.