Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
1796-1875
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French painter, draughtsman and printmaker.
After a classical education at the College de Rouen, where he did not distinguish himself, and an unsuccessful apprenticeship with two drapers, Corot was allowed to devote himself to painting at the age of 26. He was given some money that had been intended for his sister, who had died in 1821, and this, together with what we must assume was his family continued generosity, freed him from financial worries and from having to sell his paintings to earn a living. Corot chose to follow a modified academic course of training. He did not enrol in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts but studied instead with Achille Etna Michallon and, after Michallon death in 1822, with Jean-Victor Bertin. Both had been pupils of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes, and, although in later years Corot denied that he had learnt anything of value from his teachers, his career as a whole shows his attachment to the principles of historic landscape painting which they professed. Related Paintings of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot :. | Woman in Blue | Le Coup de Vent (The Gust of Wind) (mk09) | Les maisons Cabassud (mk11) | Self-Portrait | Woman with a Pearl | Related Artists: William Wendt1865-1946
Wendt believed there are philosophical, metaphysical, and theological foundations as to why humankind creates Art. Art becomes a sign in itself that points ultimately towards higher realities than the art object or process manifests in and through itself, courtesy of the artist's knowledge and free-will. Art is an adoration symbol that links the reality of the artist's vision and dream-state to the principles that are nature. Wendt decades in front of nature.
William Wendt found a California at the close of the 19th century which is now lost forever due to the effects of industrialism, consumerism and population density.
Wendt believed nature was a manifestation of God, and he viewed himself as nature's faithful interpreter.
Thom Gianetto of Edenhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, is a specialist in William Wendt. Bierstadt, AlbertThe landscape painter
Bierstadt joined a surveying expedition to the western United States in 1858 after studying painting in Germany. Cairo, Francesco delItalian Baroque Era, 1598-1674
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