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Barbizon School. Les Paysagistes et le retour à Nature. Les peintres “anti- académie ”: Les peintres de BARBIZON. The French Academy had insisted painters be trained in the “Neo Classical” tradition.
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Barbizon School Les Paysagistes et le retour à Nature.
Les peintres “anti-académie”:Les peintres de BARBIZON. • The French Academy had insisted painters be trained in the “Neo Classical” tradition. • Painters like Nicolas POUSSIN, and Claude LORRAINE had set the “standard” of academic painting in the 17th century. They were influenced by the Italian Renaissance painters. • Landscapes were not considered a noble subject matter. They were seen only as a backdrop to historical paintings.
John Constable, peintreanglais. • Romantic painter, painted the landscapes of his English country side. • While being one of England’s top painters at this time, he was not financially successful at the time • More popular in France, than in England, his exhibit greatly inspired the Barbizon painters, who wanted a return to nature.
Théodore Rousseau: Barbizon Landscape, 1850. • Rousseau loved to work in the forest.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille COROT *Monet greatly admired his work. *He worked with blacks, grays, beiges-colors “forbidden” by the impressionists later on.
Jean-François MILLET • He was a “Realist/Naturalist” painter. • Loved to paint the humble peasant farmer. • The Gleaners, 1857
Souvenez-vous….? Match them up! • Ganne? POUSSIN • Painter of Forests COROT • Painter of Peasants AUBERG • Painter of History LANDSCAPE • Painter of nature- used ROUSSEAU • grays, beiges… MILLET • Paysage
Répondez… • Why did the AcadémieFrançaise refuse to take the landscape painters seriously? • Why did the Barbizon painters paint landscapes? What was it a reaction against? What did they glorify? Why? • How did the Barbizon painters influence the Impressionists?