Original Impressionist Art.
Hayfields in Burgundy, landscape art of France.
French Landscape art
Hayfields in Burgundy
Burgundy France paintings. 86.5x136.5x2cm. NZ art 224, Oils on canvas.
Artist's impression and one of my landscape oil paintings from time spent in France.
Layers of paint and texture to this contemporary work, tons of passion, millions of hours, heaps of wine. If you buy it I can afford to go back and paint the scene down the road.
Offer$6500
Burgundy France paintings. 86.5x136.5x2cm. NZ art 224, Oils on canvas.
Artist's impression and one of my landscape oil paintings from time spent in France.
Layers of paint and texture to this contemporary work, tons of passion, millions of hours, heaps of wine. If you buy it I can afford to go back and paint the scene down the road.
Offer$6500
From Wikipedia.
Modern period Main article: French art of the 19th century Army advancing through a ruined town-painted by Wilfrid Constant Beauquesne (French, 1840-1913) The French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars brought great changes to the arts in France. The program of exaltation and myth making attendant to the Emperor Napoleon I of France was closely coordinated in the paintings of Gros and Guérin. Meanwhile, Orientalism, Egyptian motifs, the tragic anti-hero, the wild landscape, the historical novel, and scenes from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—all these elements of Romanticism—created a vibrant period that defies easy classification.
The Massacre at Chios - Eugène Delacroix Romantic tendencies continued throughout the century, both idealized landscape painting and Naturalism have their seeds in Romanticism. The work of Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon school are logical developments from it, as is the late nineteenth century Symbolism of such painters as Gustave Moreau, the professor of Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault, as well as Odilon Redon.
For many critics Édouard Manet wrote of the nineteenth century and the modern period (much as Charles Baudelaire does in poetry). His rediscovery of Spanish painting from the golden age, his willingness to show the unpainted canvas, his exploration of the forthright nude, and his radical brush strokes are the first steps toward Impressionism. Impressionism would take the Barbizon school one step farther, rejecting once and for all a belabored style and the use of mixed colors and black, for fragile transitive effects of light as captured outdoors in changing light (partly inspired by the paintings of J. M. W. Turner). It led to Claude Monet with his cathedrals and haystacks, Pierre-Auguste Renoir with both his early outdoor festivals and his later feathery style of ruddy nudes, Edgar Degas with his dancers and bathers.
After that threshold was crossed, the next thirty years became a litany of amazing experiments. Vincent van Gogh, Dutch born, but living in France, opened the road to expressionism. Georges Seurat, influenced by color theory, devised a pointillist technique that governed the Impressionist experiment. Paul Cézanne, a painter's painter, attempted a geometrical exploration of the world, that left many of his peers indifferent. Paul Gauguin, a banker, found symbolism in Brittany and then exoticism and primitivism in French Polynesia. Henri Rousseau, the self-taught dabbling postmaster, became the model for the naïve revolution.