Word: corots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cents in the United States leaves me with a sense of disgust. I remember a visit to the home of a very rich collector of pictures in New York. He accompanied me himself, set me at the best point of view before each item, and declaimed in Ciceronian accents: 'Corot, ten thousand dollars; Millet, fifteen thousand...
...Other greats of the Barbizon school: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Jean François Millet, Théodore Rousseau...
...they were effected upon her by all the faceless image molders who, in the end, made the Pygmalion of legend seem by comparison a mass of clumsy thumbs. Under close and improving direction, her famous walk developed from something crudely virginal into something profanely sophisticated. Some unknown Corot reduced the red of her lips from a massive smear to a spot in a breathtaking landscape. Her hair, sprayed and sculpted a thousand times, softened down into a pangloss of wishful thinking, making nature say uncle...
...futurists were turned down because of some sort of disagreement now lost to history. But aside from these omissions, just about every big name in modern art was in, and the big names turned out to be mostly French, including the small historical perspective of Ingres, Delacroix, Daumier and Corot. But perspective was not what the critics...
Though 16 years younger than Corot, Theodore Rousseau was in his lifetime the dominant figure in the school. He was obsessed by the moods of nature, from the wild turmoil of storms to the glassy calm of scenes like his Farm on the Banks of the Oise. To those who have dismissed the Barbizon painters as little more than copyists of nature, Rousseau gave an arresting reply. To paint from nature, he said, was not to copy it but to converse with it, to paint objects in terms of "the echoes they have placed in our souls." He had "heard...