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.

POUSSIN : “The Companions of Renaldo.” 1630

LORRAINE: “Landscape with a draftsman sketching ruins” 1630

John Constable, peintre anglais.

• 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.

Deadham Vale, 1802

The Hay Wain, 1821.

Théodore Rousseau: Barbizon Landscape, 1850.

• Rousseau loved to work in the forest.

ROUSSEAU: Sunset.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille COROT

*Monet greatly admired his work.*He worked with blacks, grays, beiges-colors

“forbidden” by the impressionists later on.

COROT: Trees at Fontainebleau.

Jean-François MILLET

• He was a “Realist/Naturalist” painter.• Loved to paint the humble peasant farmer.• The Gleaners, 1857

MILLET, L’ Angelus, 1857

Auberg de Ganne

Le puit et la bicyclette à Ganne

L’horloge artistique

Les tableaux des paysages.

Tous les artistes ont signé leur nom dans ce livre.

Une peinture au mur…

L’homme au mur…

Atelier original des artistes.

La forêt de Fontainebleau…

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…

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