Barbizon school

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French art movement art movement painting school

The Barbizon school was a mid-19th-century French art movement centered on naturalistic landscape painting and rural life, which helped pave the way for Impressionism.

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Barbizon 3
Barbizon School 3
Barbizon School (influence) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French art movement ⓘ
art movement ⓘ
painting school ⓘ
artHistoricalContext transition between Romanticism and Impressionism ⓘ
associatedWith Forest of Fontainebleau ⓘ
surface form: Fontainebleau forest

Realism ⓘ
surface form: French Realism
country France ⓘ
endTime 1870s ⓘ
exhibitedAt Paris Salon ⓘ
field painting ⓘ
visual arts ⓘ
genre landscape painting ⓘ
rural genre painting ⓘ
hasNotableMember Antoine-Louis Barye ⓘ
Charles Jacque ⓘ
Charles-François Daubigny ⓘ
Constant Troyon ⓘ
Félix Ziem ⓘ
Henri Harpignies ⓘ
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ⓘ
Jean-François Millet ⓘ
Jules Dupré ⓘ
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña ⓘ
Théodore Rousseau ⓘ
influenced Impressionism ⓘ
surface form: French Impressionism

Impressionism ⓘ
influencedArtist Camille Pissarro ⓘ
Claude Monet ⓘ
Vincent van Gogh ⓘ
inspiredBy Dutch Golden Age landscape painting ⓘ
English landscape painting ⓘ
locatedIn Forest of Fontainebleau ⓘ
surface form: Fontainebleau forest region
location Fontainebleau, France ⓘ
surface form: Barbizon, France
movement Realism ⓘ
movementCharacteristic emphasis on direct observation of nature ⓘ
focus on rural life ⓘ
interest in ordinary peasants and rural labor ⓘ
muted, earthy color palette ⓘ
naturalistic depiction of landscape ⓘ
painting en plein air ⓘ
rejection of academic classicism ⓘ
namedAfter Barbizon school self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Barbizon
opposedTo Neoclassicism ⓘ
surface form: Neoclassicism in painting
precededBy French academic art ⓘ
relatedConcept plein air painting ⓘ
rural naturalism ⓘ
startTime 1830s ⓘ
timePeriod mid-19th century ⓘ

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subject surface form: Ville-d'Avray
this entity surface form: Barbizon school of painters
this entity surface form: Picturesque movement
George Inness → influencedBy → Barbizon school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barbizon School painters
Gustave Courbet → influencedBy → Barbizon school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barbizon School
Hudson River School → influencedBy → Barbizon school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barbizon School
Impressionism → influencedBy → Barbizon school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barbizon School
Winslow Homer → influencedBy → Barbizon school ⓘ
George Inness → movement → Barbizon school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barbizon School (influence)
Jean-François Millet → movement → Barbizon school ⓘ
William Morris Hunt → movement → Barbizon school ⓘ
Barbizon school → namedAfter → Barbizon school self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barbizon
Jean-François Millet → placeOfDeath → Barbizon school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barbizon
Jean-François Millet → residence → Barbizon school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barbizon