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Barbizon Painters
Rousseau, Millet, Corot
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/21/2008

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  • Millet Man with a Hoe
  • 1860
  • art that communicated to the masses
  • common peasant  portrayed as heroic and noble (unlike the dramatic hero of Gericault's Raft of the Medusa or David's Oath of the Horatii)
  • large, monumental figure
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[image]
Definition
  • Millet The Sower
  • 1850
  • lit from behind (contojuer)
  • insprational, impassioned outcry versus urban sprawl
  • faceless, timeless, appeals to masses
  • large scale monumentalizes common man
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[image]
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  • Millet The Gleaners
  • 1857
  • velocity of lines is slow and langorous
  • majestic and sculptural
  • intentionally anonymous
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[image]
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  • Corot Forest of Fontainebleau
  • 1860
  • concordance of man with nature ("open window")
  • stasis, tranquility, harmony
  • soft, gauzy facture
  • rhapsodic excitement
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[image]
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  • Corot Boatman of Mortefontaine
  • 1865
  • dreamy, gauzy, sublime, ethereal
  • classical beauty in stasis
  • undulating curves of trees interplay with each other
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