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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CORCEU_140913_001.JPG: Toward a Modern Style: Painting and Sculpture in France, 1832-1905 "Cold exactitude is not art; ingenuous artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself." -- Eugene Delacroix, 1822 Countering the prevalence of classical themes and styles in the 18th and early 19th centuries, Romantic artists sought a new freedom in their work. Mirroring the social and political climate, Eugene Delacroix painted idealistic and rebellious narratives through rich colors and dramatic compositions. Beginning in the 1820s, the new, highly influential style of Romanticism epitomized an aesthetic response to the growing industrialization of France. Following the 1848 revolution, which established the short-lived French Second Republic, artists like Gustave Courbet and Honore Daumier developed new ways to reflect the lives and sensibilities of everyday people in place of the literary and historical subjects of Romanticism. Known as Realism, this new form developed alongside the fledgling art of photography and sought to depict the observable truth. Peasant laborers and scenes of the countryside became important subjects for Courbet and his followers, like Jules-Adolphe-Aime-Louis Breton, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Theodore Rousseau. One group of painters worked regularly in the forest of Fontainebleau, near Barbizon. Barbizon school artists helped engender an inventive landscape style based on close observation in light and color.
2. CORCEU_140913_012.JPG: Albert Andre Environs of Cannes, c 1900
3. CORCEU_140913_019.JPG: Eugene Louis Boudin Le Havre, 1883
4. CORCEU_140913_027.JPG: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Souvenir of Terracina, 1860-1865
5. CORCEU_140913_034.JPG: Alfred Sisley Marly-le-Roi, c 1875
6. CORCEU_140913_041.JPG: Jean-Francois Raffaelli The Boulevard, c 1900-1905
7. CORCEU_140913_047.JPG: Jean Charles Cazin Rest Before Nightfall, 1883
8. CORCEU_140913_057.JPG: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Dance Under the Trees at the Edge of the Lake, c 1865-1870
9. CORCEU_140913_060.JPG: Charles Daubigny Sunset on the River, 1874
10. CORCEU_140913_065.JPG: Charles Daubigny Washerwomen, 1861
11. CORCEU_140913_073.JPG: Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Pena In the Forest, 1874
12. CORCEU_140913_078.JPG: Leon-Augustin Lhermitte Washerwomen on the Banks of the Marne, 1898
13. CORCEU_140913_082.JPG: Pascal Adolphe Dagnan-Bouveret Study for Breton Women at the Pardon, c 1887
14. CORCEU_140913_086.JPG: Jean Charles Cazin Homestead by the Sea, n.d.
15. CORCEU_140913_093.JPG: Henri Regnault Head of a Moor, c 1870
16. CORCEU_140913_098.JPG: Eugene Delacroix Tiger and Snake, 1862
17. CORCEU_140913_104.JPG: Eugene Isabey Country Tavern, Feasting, 1875
18. CORCEU_140913_114.JPG: Honore Victorin Daumier At the Gallery Drouot, n.d.
19. CORCEU_140913_123.JPG: Adolphe Monticelli Return from the Hunt, 1855
20. CORCEU_140913_129.JPG: Constant Troyon Descent from Montmartre, 1850s
21. CORCEU_140913_134.JPG: Jules-Adolphe-Aime-Louis Breton The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed), 1860
22. CORCEU_140913_140.JPG: Theodore Rousseau Sunlight, c 1848-1850
23. CORCEU_140913_146.JPG: Theodore Rousseau After the Rain, c 1850
24. CORCEU_140913_151.JPG: Frantisek Kupka Untitled, 1912
25. CORCEU_140913_156.JPG: The Transformation of Painting and Sculpture in France, 1850-1918: "In matters of painting and sculpture, the present day Credo of the sophisticated, above all in France, is this: I believe in nature, and I believe only in Nature (there are good reasons for that)." -- Charles Beaudelaire, 1859 European art changed dramatically during the 19th century. Especially in France -- where revolution, war, and economic upheaval altered the nation as a whole -- artists rebelled against academic styles and subjects, transforming predominantly neoclassical or romantic views of history, religion, and nature into provocative representations that were less encumbered by tradition. By the mid-1860s, artists like Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir began to experiment with new styles and contemporary subjects rooted in their study of visual phenomena, like color, light, and movement. Initially rejected by the academy, their work ultimately transformed the practice of modern painting and sculpture. Artists were also guided by scientific and technological progress. With the advent of steam power, railroads, electricity, and modern forms of communication -- photography, telegraphy, advanced printing, and cinema -- they engaged a world increasingly driven by images. Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, and Frantisek Kupka developed new forms of representation based in part on speed, relatively, and multiple points of view.
26. CORCEU_140913_160.JPG: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Le Repos (The Repose), 1860, reworked c 1865-1870
27. CORCEU_140913_169.JPG: Constant Troyon Landscape with Figures, c 1850-1852
28. CORCEU_140913_174.JPG: Eugene Louis Boudin Fair in Brittany, 1874
29. CORCEU_140913_179.JPG: Pierre-Auguste Renoir View from Cap Martin of Monte Carlo, c 1884
30. CORCEU_140913_188.JPG: Camille Pissarro The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather, 1900
31. CORCEU_140913_194.JPG: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas The Dance Class, c 1873
32. CORCEU_140913_202.JPG: Hilaire-Germaine-Edgar Degas Theater Box, c 1877
33. CORCEU_140913_212.JPG: Sir Henry Raeburn Mrs. Vere of Stonebyres, c 1805
34. CORCEU_140913_216.JPG: Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Rise of Rococo Style and Return of Classical and Romantic Themes "You are never to lose sight of nature: the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer." -- Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1784 European art during the 18th century provided an evocative response to the strict rationality of the Enlightenment and the saturated splendor that dominated the earlier Baroque style. Rococo art is characterized by lightness and intimacy of tone and color, as well as its organic, decorative references to landscape and nature. It evolved as a lively reaction to the official art of the court of Versailles and spread through Europe during the second half of the 18th century as monarchs and artists sought to integrate painting and sculpture with decorative art, design, and architecture. With renewed interest in the classical world -- called Neoclassicism -- brought about in part by archeological discoveries during the last quarter of the century, artists in France and England returned to mythical themes that embodied the origins of Western art and ideology. At the same time, society portraiture and landscape images grew in importance as the Industrial Revolution helped create newfound wealth and spurred a more romantic view of nature.
35. CORCEU_140913_219.JPG: Benjamin West Telemachus and Calypso, c 1809
36. CORCEU_140913_228.JPG: Francesco Guardi Santa Maria della Salute, c 1770
37. CORCEU_140913_244.JPG: Thomas Gainsborough John Gainsborough, 1746-48
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