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( 8 pp) The Barbizon School was a group of
naturalist landscape painters who worked in the
vicinity of Barbizon, a village on the outskirts of
the Forest of Fontainebleu, southeast of Paris, in
the 1840s and 1850s. These artists rejected the
Academic tradition, abandoning theory in an attempt
to achieve a truer representation of the
countryside, and are considered to be part of the
French Realist movement.
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of the countryside, and are considered to be part of the French Realist movement. Bibliography lists 6 sources. BBbarbzn.doc THE BARBIZON SCHOOL OF ART
Written by for the Paperstore, Inc., July 2000 Introduction The Barbizon School was a group of naturalist landscape painters who
worked in the vicinity of Barbizon, a village on the outskirts of the Forest of Fontainebleu, southeast of Paris, in the 1840s and 1850s. These artists rejected the Academic
tradition, abandoning theory in an attempt to achieve a truer representation of the countryside, and are considered to be part of the French Realist movement. Th?odore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)
was the founder of the group. Other members of the group were Jean-Baptist Corot (French, 1796-1875), Narcisse Diaz de la Pe?a (French, 1807-1876), Constant Troyon (French, 1810-1865), Jules Dupr? (French,
1811-1889), Jean-Fran?ois Millet (French, 1814-1875), and Charles-Fran?ois Daubigny (French, 1817-1878). The Barbizon School artists are often considered to have been forerunners of the Impressionists, who took a similar philosophical approach
to their art. Daubigny was the first of the plein air painters. Relevant History During the second half of the nineteenth century, the ideal of self-determination begun by
the French Revolution, began a revolutionary spirit which spread through much of Europe. In 1848, the year in which Marx and Engels published the Communist Manefesto revolutions broke out
in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Venice, Milan, Parma and Rome. Though inspired by different circumstances, these revolts shared a common ideology centered on a growing belief in democracy, a sense
of individual freedom, and an emerging social awareness. Certainly this revolutionary attitude infected artists of the period. They challenged the philosophy and the aesthetic principles of the
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