Barbizon school
Fontainebleau forest painters
The Barbizon school was a mid-nineteenth-century movement of French landscape painters who worked in and around the village of Barbizon near the Forest of Fontainebleau.
These artists—including Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, and Camille Corot—rejected idealized classical landscapes in favor of direct observation of nature, painting outdoors and depicting rural scenes with atmospheric realism.
The movement influenced Impressionism and helped establish landscape painting as a serious genre: The Barbizon school's emphasis on plein air painting anticipated the Impressionists.
- tonalismArt emphasizing mood, atmosphere
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- oil paintingArt made with linseed-bound pigments
- rural FranceNon-urban French territory
- village lifeExistence in small settlements
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- pastoral artrural landscapes, countryside views, grazing animals, peasant life, rolling hills
- French Impressionismimpressionism, Impressionism, Monet, Renoir, plein air
- naturalismnaturalism, literary realism, realism, determinism, empiricism
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