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Yvon Taillandier (1926–2018)

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16 oeuvres 308 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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Date de naissance
1926-03-28
Date de décès
2018-03-03
Sexe
male
Nationalité
France
Lieux de résidence
Paris, France
Professions
sculptor
art critic
Organisations
Salon de Mai

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Jean-Baptiste Corot, a contemporary of Eugène Delacroix, is a quiet romantic painter who is often overlooked. Similar to the pairing of Rembrandt and Vermeer, the world's attention was captured by the dramatic and the colorful. Vermeer and Corot are the masters of quiet moments. Their palettes are drained of vivid colors. Yellow, brown and light-blue predominate in Corot's work. When, for once, he uses a bright red such as in his Reading Girl, the effect is spectacular, vivid. Another peculiarity is that his (female) models almost never make eye contact. Even if they look towards the spectator, their eyes focus slightly above the viewer's face, thus refusing to engage. Corot truly is a 19th century Vermeer, with the possible exception that Corot is also a great and productive landscape painter. The only defect of this marvelously illustrated introduction is the low number of landscape paintings included.

As last year's wonderful exhibition "Corot in Switzerland" in Geneva has shown, his landscape output dwarfs the number of portraits. Compared to his contemporaries, Corot was surprisingly modern and light, which may explain some of his recent popularity, at least among those interested in art.
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jcbrunner | May 29, 2011 |

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Œuvres
16
Membres
308
Popularité
#76,456
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
1
ISBN
29
Langues
4

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