Normandy
date: 8/5/21
I didn't have my sketchbook, so this one is recorded on my Notes app. May contain some French as well since I'm looking at a Normandy exhibition...
Corot is in the Barbizon school (check
Camille corot painted on brown Canvas, base showing thru
Normandy is grey ish
Paul Huet makes the sea looks clear and fresh
Morisot and her blurry lines
Fuzzy but clear at a distance; some lines are straight
Why so this one unprotected
low contrast and look good too
Boudin is a native Normandian
Great control with light and dark- colors
Louis-Alexandre Dubourg (1821-1892) paints labourers and is a Honfleur merchant
Cette peinture m’a touchée beaucoup. Les femmes se sembles de marchant ver moi. Elle émergent de l’horizon. Le petit dab de lumière dans la tête de femme est comme la doigt de dieu.
Female fish vendors- a lil Dutch looking
Delacroix Etretat
Delacroix has a almost Lorraine looking paintstroke, so smooth and so well lit
The cliff has a fuzzy texture
The deep dark contrasting light
Perhaps a lil romanticism? Def more than the other grim depiction
Monet Etretat interesting framing
He went to Africa to be a soldier??
The cave bit has pristine boarders
Why the smudge? Intentional
Manet in his later years don’t use dark background anymore , influenced by Impressionism
also why the heck do ppl keep taking photos here?????? Why deliberately invent these places???
have to attract common visitor with these kind of photo-attraction set-ups
I also LOVE the color of the walls- blue grey, illuminating gold frames and light color works
Guillaume Fouace (1827-1895) Realist painter
Amazing still life- why it’s place increases during this period
PLEASE THAT ONE STROKE OF WHITE IS INCREDIBLE
TELLL ME HOW DOES HE MAKE A FREAKING PIE LOOK SO GOOOOD
Just the mere colors- royal and elite
Artists distinguish the hard rock texture from the soft sand and foamy sea
So cute two kids sitting in a golden frame the girl holding a rose to her nose
Karl Daubigny- paintings a little more clear and optimistic
Normandy school of art focuses on iconography of nature
Frank Myers Boggs is an American- just living in french and as an impressionist
Dieppe
Rough Americans I can tell
So foggy too
Adolphe-Félix Cals
Grey impressionist
Wow so there really do exist people who likes it THAT grey
Much brighter palettes and textures after learning from Corot
Why is this one an outcast- this was pre-Corot acquaintance
Crépuscule means twilight
Bon- c’est la vie que je veux!!!
Les artistes de Normandie viennent de Paris, les apprentissage rigoureusement
Honfleur is a popular destination, shore, even a Honfleur school
Dubourg: the sky is such a beautiful lilac color
Wait I love this: (Myers Bogg)
Why is the sky so much like tie die pants
Also looks nothing like his other works
Achille-Émile Othon Friesz, fauvism iconic person
Wonder why it’s wooden frame?
(btw Just checked my scores- AP art history a 5!!!! Dang WHATTT that was way out my expectations)
Jaques Levin (Galien-Laloue) , wowowow pristine cut, so diff from others, si fraîche
Et le tache de bleu pour le ciel…
A lot of ppl like to put the French flag motif on
MON DIEU QUEST QUE CEST
(Henri Vignet)
This DEF had influence from Japan and block prints
Jules Noël- Quite romantic no?
STOP-WHAT IN THE DISNEY IS THIS—
Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
Call it kitsch but pretty to me😙 looks like print
Lépine- hmmm does he paints like morandi, or morandi paints like him
Marcel Couchaux- how does he make all the colors same tone?? Feel the light so well!
Rouen is a flourishing medieval town, super pretty, lots of ruin/remains, so a natural museum
Cagné Street- Pierre Dumont, 1930 (pretty modern
Rouen school(?)
Reminds me of iPad work- the colors are just too vibrant!!
Marcel Couchaux is a pioneer in the Rouen school- likes to use knife
Do conservators glaze over the works??
Corot is start of Impressionism, master of plein air
Corot is also teacher of Lépine
Eugène Isabey is the teacher of Boudin
Boudin is teacher of Monet
Berthe Morisot is Fragonard’s grand niece
Didn’t know Courbet was such a powerful landscape painter too
Dark next to light
Dry brushstroke nice waves
Isabey
Interesting curating category- by topic of location/ master or not
Rame paints quite like Millet