Throughout history art has been a major aspect of human civilization. Over time art has evolved and shifted from different eras and civilizations. For my report, I chose to visit the Timken Museum, in Balboa Park, where I saw the View of Volterra by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
The scene in Camille Corot’s the View of Volterra depicts a distant view of the town of Volterra. In the scene we see a lush countryside, with a man on a horse who appears to be talking to someone sitting, in the shade of a tree, besides the trail leading up to the town sitting in the background. In the scene we can also see the many trees dotted around the landscape, and a large cliff-face next to the trail, there is large but somewhat obstructed sky, and mountains …show more content…
Later when Corot returned to paris he used some of these sketches to paint two seprate veiws of the town.(Balboa) Herrman Leicht explains in his History of the Worlds Arts that Corot had been trained by a Classical landscape painter by the name of Victor Bertin, who taught him to use small plein-air (open-air) studies called pochades, these were rapid color oil studies. Corot typicaly stuck to small plein-air sketches in his earlier years, which had often remained as final products for many years and did not exhibit. Corot later enlarged his pochades, and generally liked to maintain a non-idealized depiction of the land. …show more content…
According to the The Encyclopædia Britannica, Camille Corot, was born in Paris in 1796 and is most famous for his Landscapes, and his portraits to a lesser degree. Corot later went to Rome in 1825 were he was inspired by the Italian countryside and made the decision to paint landscapes. On his second trip to Italy he created sketches of Volterra, Florence, Pisa, Genoa, Venice, and the Lake District to use as inspiration for later works. (The Encyclopædia Britannica) These are the sketches, talked about earlier, that were used to create the View of Volterra. Later In 1845 Charles Baudelaire wrote a review of the 1845 Solon, giving praise to Corot’s Landscapes. Corot was later made a member of the Legion of Honor in 1846. (The Encyclopædia Britannica) According to the Jason History of Art, “It was not until the late 1840s, when he developed his third category of picture, the lyrical landscape, that he became popular […] Corot was no longer inspired directly by nature, but by his memories of landscape and the Romantic moods it provoked. We sense that Corot's vision has been filtered through the haze of memory.” (Jasons History of Art 1848) This new style Corot had created was known as the Souvenirs, they were more idealized than his previous paintings, and where meant to evoke a melancholy mood. Corot’s Souvenirs are considered his best known art. Near the end of his life, Corot switch to
The scene in Camille Corot’s the View of Volterra depicts a distant view of the town of Volterra. In the scene we see a lush countryside, with a man on a horse who appears to be talking to someone sitting, in the shade of a tree, besides the trail leading up to the town sitting in the background. In the scene we can also see the many trees dotted around the landscape, and a large cliff-face next to the trail, there is large but somewhat obstructed sky, and mountains …show more content…
Later when Corot returned to paris he used some of these sketches to paint two seprate veiws of the town.(Balboa) Herrman Leicht explains in his History of the Worlds Arts that Corot had been trained by a Classical landscape painter by the name of Victor Bertin, who taught him to use small plein-air (open-air) studies called pochades, these were rapid color oil studies. Corot typicaly stuck to small plein-air sketches in his earlier years, which had often remained as final products for many years and did not exhibit. Corot later enlarged his pochades, and generally liked to maintain a non-idealized depiction of the land. …show more content…
According to the The Encyclopædia Britannica, Camille Corot, was born in Paris in 1796 and is most famous for his Landscapes, and his portraits to a lesser degree. Corot later went to Rome in 1825 were he was inspired by the Italian countryside and made the decision to paint landscapes. On his second trip to Italy he created sketches of Volterra, Florence, Pisa, Genoa, Venice, and the Lake District to use as inspiration for later works. (The Encyclopædia Britannica) These are the sketches, talked about earlier, that were used to create the View of Volterra. Later In 1845 Charles Baudelaire wrote a review of the 1845 Solon, giving praise to Corot’s Landscapes. Corot was later made a member of the Legion of Honor in 1846. (The Encyclopædia Britannica) According to the Jason History of Art, “It was not until the late 1840s, when he developed his third category of picture, the lyrical landscape, that he became popular […] Corot was no longer inspired directly by nature, but by his memories of landscape and the Romantic moods it provoked. We sense that Corot's vision has been filtered through the haze of memory.” (Jasons History of Art 1848) This new style Corot had created was known as the Souvenirs, they were more idealized than his previous paintings, and where meant to evoke a melancholy mood. Corot’s Souvenirs are considered his best known art. Near the end of his life, Corot switch to