Barbizon School
バルビゾン派 / 1830s–1870s / Style / Landscape Painting
French landscape painting built from direct observation around Fontainebleau, treating trees, marsh, fields, livestock, weather, and labor as the subject rather than the background to a historical story.
Low horizon under a changing sky / Trees, marsh, livestock, and rural labor / Restrained brown, green, and grey earth colors / The directness of outdoor studies joined to substantial studio paint

Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Showing countryside and forest as places of weather and labor rather than pastoral fantasy · Giving environmental work a quiet attention to soil, near distance, and changing sky
- Type
- Use a plain serif for place and season, keeping large copy out of the landscape.
- Composition
- Lower the horizon, weight one side with a trunk or animal, and give most of the field to weather.
- Material
- Layer ochre, umber, olive, and lead grey wetly, then place white light only in a few areas.
- Caution
- A beige country scene is not automatically Barbizon. Observe a specific site, weather, and form of work, and do not break color as far as Impressionism.
- Further study
- Théodore Rousseau and Fontainebleau / Jean-François Millet and rural labor / plein-air studies before Impressionism
Related entries
- Naturalism (自然主義美術)Shared effects: Trust / Intimacy / Calm.Compare Barbizon School and Naturalism
- Impressionism (印象主義)Shared effects: Calm / Intimacy.Compare Barbizon School and Impressionism
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