Word: barbizon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shuttered house overlooking Aix in French Provence, Masson tried to explain last week what the switch meant. "Don't think I'm going to return to the Barbizon school and paint descriptive landscapes," he began. "No, I'm still a surrealist, but a sun-loving one-seeking the fantastic and mysterious in broad daylight, under...
...Methodist prelate, Oxnam has two unusual hobbies; the theater and art. He and his wife go to every play they can and have a good collection of paintings (mostly of the Barbizon school), including a Sargent and a Sir Joshua Reynolds: Girl with a Bird. When the mayor of Omaha tried to censor some profanity from the Lunt-Fontanne production of Idiot's Delight, Oxnam got him to drop the attempt, declaring: "Censorship is more dangerous than an occasional realistic line. If the mayor decides to remain in politics, may I suggest a theme song for his coming campaign...
Alabama's hulking Governor "Big Jim" Folsom hulked into Manhattan to be installed as "No. 1 Leap Year Bachelor" by the publicity-conscious Barbizon Studio of Fashion Modeling. In the course of a much-photographed kissing tour of the city, he managed to stop traffic on Fifth Avenue.* He also delivered himself of an opinion on the Marshall Plan which disclosed that he had not altogether forgotten the paternity suit against him (TIME, March 15): "When it comes a-weanin' time [those European countries] are gonna squeal. You ever weaned a baby, honey? No? You try it, honey...
...father), not for pleasure, but to study landscape. His chief inspiration came from Italy, where he did some of his best work: the brilliant, sunlit View of Genoa, the lovely Olevano with its Cezanne-like brushwork. Not until he was in his 50s and under the influence of the Barbizon school did Corot begin to paint, not what nature is, but his dream of what it ought...
...barren mountains, weedy gum trees, drab sheep barns and sprawling Victorian mansions of their native landscape. Like U.S. artists they were good water-colorists. Like U.S. Middle and Far Western artists of a generation ago, the Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted looked like Texas-a Texas with blue eucalyptus and mauve acacia trees, sun-bleached to pastel colors...