Word: barbizon
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...first days at Harvard, everyone told me I ought to meet Alan. However, my freshman year came and went and, although I got involved in theatre, I still never met him. In the middle of February, however, I received an e-mail from him inviting anyone interested to the Barbizon Lighting Open House. Only two of us responded, and on a cold Thursday afternoon, I found myself riding in his big black SUV as we headed off on our road trip. I always knew Alan was a theatre legend. After all, along with other Harvard and Radcliffe alums...
...latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Israëls, Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael's pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills and Van Gogh's powerhouse Wheatfield...
...have such a vast reputation? Largely because he was seen as a living bridge between the classical tradition of French landscape and contemporary painting, whether by contemporary you meant the Barbizon painters of the mid-19th century, like Theodore Rousseau and Charles Daubigny, or the more recent vision of Monet and the Impressionists. Corot's career began in the 1820s, at a time when classical landscape--the ideal scene with temples, ruins and mellow boscage, populated by figures out of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas...
...beauty itself. Yet his attachment to rural images from earlier French art, particularly the earthy fields of Millet, is pervasive and obvious; some of his "Texturologies" might as well be exaggeratedly close-up paintings of the life of the soil done by a microbiologist under the spell of the Barbizon school...
Asians are under-represented in the fashion world and it is one of the many areas that we need to explore. I don't expect people to drop everything and transfer from Harvard to Barbizon, but this show was to make Asian Americans think more carefully about the doors that are open to them...