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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 19th century French artist:
Magnificent presentation of Corot's body of work - I was especially pleased that the color plates are large and clear-cut, without fuzziness.These reproductions are of the highest quality.A good selection of Corot's drawings are also included.These are combined with insightful essays about Corot's personal life, his growth as an artist; his late-in-life fame and the way he treated it, and the influence he had on other artists - many Impressionists, to whom he was a forerunner and an inspiration, as well as modern artists like Cezanne and Picasso.An immense, beautifully produced, coffee-table-size book about a great 19th century artist.
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This large, lavish journey through the art of the 19th-century French landscape offers a host of masterful works, among them Corot's Forest of Fontainbleau, Millet's End of the Hamlet of Gruchy, Renoir's Rocky Crags at L'Estaque, and Monet's Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur. As is often the case, however, some of the most wonderful things to see are also the least expected: rare and unusual monotypes by Degas, three states of a softground etching by Pissarro, and numerous works by some of their lesser-known but equally important contemporaries. Unlike previous books on the topic, Impressions of Light presents a unique and stunningly complete group of work that introduces a new level of complexity into the discussion of French landscapes. Rather than considering the landscape as a steady, linear development and the product of a single medium, it takes into account the many crosscurrents and intersecting developments in French art, from the Barbizon school through the post-Impressionist period. In addition, it studies the landscape in a variety of media--painting, prints, and photography--exploring both the individual artists' perceptions and the ways in which they influenced each other. With over 80 paintings and 70 works on paper from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's collections, and published to accompany a major exhibition, Impressions of Light encompasses more than 100 years and 56 artists working in a dozen different media. It holds the broadest possible view, yet never loses sight of the extraordinary intricacy that makes the landscape so enduringly appealing. Artists Include:Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Huet, Odilon Redon, Jean-Francois Millet, Charles-Francois Daubigny, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, and Paul Gaugin among others.

Essays by Fronia E. Wissman, Karen E. Haas, Anne Havinga, Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro.
Introduction by George T.M. Shackelford.

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Come Visit Beautiful French Landscapes
The book Impressions of Light by George Shackleford et al is a companion book to an art exhibit of works from Boston's Museum of Fine Art. The paintings are landscapes created by France's greatest nineteenth century painters and photographers. Most of the painters are Impressionists but others schools are represented as well. The book also contains sketches which were part of the exhibit. The sketches, as well as the written commentary which accompanies many of them, allows the reader to better understand the creative process of the painters. The factual information in the book is very extensive and helps the readers see more in the works than normally meets the eye. Perhaps what is most interesting about this book and the collection of paintings and photographs included it is the plethora of lesser known works by these great artists. Readers, especially those who have been fortunate to view the exhibit, will be transported to the settings of these great works and gain a deeper appreciation of these great artists and photographers.

A spectaculrly beautifully, illustrated art history
Impressions Of Light: The French Landscape From Corot To Monet is a lavishly, richly, spectaculrly beautifully, illustrated art history showcasing one hundred years of French art and 56 French artists. Included area wealth of rare and unusual monotypes by Degas, three states of a softground etching by Pissarro, and numerous illustrative works by lesser-known by equally significant contemporaries. Of particular interest is the attention paid to intersecting developments in French art from the Barbizon school through post-Impressionism. Enhanced with more than 80 paintings and 70 works on paper drawn from the MFA collections, showcasing the French landscape through painting, prints, and photography, Impressions Of Light deftly explores individual artists' perceptions as well as the manifold ways that influenced each other. Impressions Of Light will prove to be a welcome and much appreciated contribution to Art History collections in general, and 19th Century French landscape art and photography in particular. ... Read more

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At his death in 1875, Corot's name called to the minds of his admirers an art most different from what it suggests to us today. What makes him great in our judgement was, in fact, only marginally relevant to the success he enjoyed in his later years. Many of his best works were actually unknown to his contemporaries. To establish the aesthetic itinerary of an artist whose works are extremely scattered involves exploring the public and private collections throughout numerous countries for the three thousand pieces by Corot. ... Read more

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Arriving in Rome in 1825, Corot spent three years painting and drawing the landscape nearby. In their freshness and candour, his open-air studies seem to point forward, toward Impressionism. Galassi shows that they also point to the past. Half a century before Corot visited Italy, the community of foreign artists at Rome had spawned a school of outdoor painting. Under the banner of Neoclassicism, an international roster of artists - British, French, German, Scandinavian - elaborated the experiment into a rich tradition, absorbing the lessons of Poussin and Claude and appropriating the motifs of the viewmakers. Corot's work marks the culmination of the tradition, the last, flowering of the classical landscape ideal. Drawing on the efforts of scholars, dealers, and collectors, Galassi establishes the coherence and significance of early outdoor painting in Italy. Building on this foundation, he explores in depth Corot's magnificent landscapes. ... Read more

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Corot in Italy is a wonderful piece of historical beauty
I can't praise this book enough. Corot's work in Italy are in my mind someof the greatest plein air painting ever done.Seeing his work compared tohis contemporaries etc. is very interesting. One also appreciates theallure of the Italian landscape. Corot is sometimes viewed as the father ofImpressionism(his later work). But I could look at these landscapes allday. His realism and fresh painting technique is really sumptuous, and it'sa good thing he found his niche in painting rather late.Buy this book, youwon't regret it if you love landscape. ... Read more

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Chapters: Souvenir de Mortefontaine, the Bridge at Narni, Ville D'avray, Venise, La Piazetta, Femme Lisant, le Concert Champêtre. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 19. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Souvenir de Mortefontaine (Recollection of Mortefontaine) is a 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It is a scene of tranquillity: a woman and children quietly enjoying themselves by a glass-flat, tree-flanked lake. Generally acknowledged as one of his masterpieces, it is among the most successful of Corot's later, more poetic works. The painting captures an idealized scene while still drawing from the real world. Corot's early painting showed Realist leanings, but as his career progressed he began to combine more Romantic elements, and his works are often viewed as a bridge between Realism and the evolving Impressionist movement. Souvenir de Mortefontaine verges on the Impressionistic, with the lake and landscape captured by broad rather than detailed strokes and Corot's careful attention to the play of light within the scene, though the brushwork is precise and the painting has a more muted palette than the bright colours favoured by the Impressionists. The indistinct features are reminiscent of the blurry details of early landscape photography; Corot had a large collection of these photographs and may have been attempting to recreate the effect in paint. The Boatman of Mortefontaine (186570) Souvenir de Mortefontaine (detail)Mortefontaine is a small village in the Oise département in northern France. Corot made frequent visits to the area in the 1850s to study the effects of light and reflection on water. In Souvenir de Mortefontaine Corot was not producing a scene from life, but (as the title suggests) his recollections of his visits and the p...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22786708 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Queen's Quarterly, published by Queen's Quarterly on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 2706 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Memory in landscape: (Jean Baptiste Camille) Corot at the National Gallery.
Author: Michael Pantazzi
Publication: Queen's Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: Queen's Quarterly
Volume: 103Issue: 2Page: cover,286-97

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This digital document is an article from Contenido, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1472 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Camille Corot, el reinventor de los paisajes: pasó la vida contemplando visiones trasparentes sin permitir que nada, ni la amistad, ni el éxito, ni el dinero ni el amor, le nublaran la vista.(pintor)(Biografía)
Author: Mary Lou Dabdoub A.
Publication: Contenido (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 490Page: 50(6)

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