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

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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

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