Author: Harambourg, Lydia
Title: Dictionnaire Des Peintres Paysagistes Français Au Xixe Siècle
Description: Neuchatel, Switzerland, Ides et Calendes, 1985. Hardcover. Green dj with color illustration, green cloth-bound boards with green text on spine. Inside of grey stapled slipcase. (4) 5-360 pp. Features many b+w illustrations. "Until the end of the 18th century, the representation of landscape, a minor genre, could only be justified based on a historical, mythological or decorative reference. This idealization diminished under the influence of Rousseau, Sénancour and Chateaubriand who advocated a return to primitive nature. Landscape, like happiness, was a revolutionary idea. At the beginning of the 19th century, two important stages contributed to the development of a naturalist school. In 1816, the creation of a landscape class at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, which was awarded the Grand Prix du Paysage historique by the Academy, and in 1836 the founding of the landscape school in Barbizon by Théodore Rousseau. The discovery of reality through nature became the preoccupation of artists, but also of writers, philosophers and scientists. With the landscape, realism was born. From then on, the French school had a landscape painting that no longer referred to anything other than sites, light and atmospheric elements. From classicism and romanticism to post-impressionism, the reader is invited to discover these generations of landscape painters. Lydia Harambourg lists in this Dictionnaire des peintres paysagistes more than 3000 artists, leaders and masters, disciples, isolated and unknown. This panorama is also a journey through time and space. The exploration by these artists of little-known or distant regions gave rise to travel reports followed by their publications and gave rise in France to regional schools. Before photography and reporting took over, landscape painting wrote the history of our environment. By setting up his studio in the open air, the painter's gaze changed, he imposed a vision of things seen differently, leading to technical changes that would lead to the formal audacities of 20th century painting. Landscape painting in the 19th century illustrated by this dictionary is the essential link in a history of art that is that of man." - translated from abstract. VG+ .

Keywords: European Art ; French Landscape Painters ; ; General Art - European


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