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2069 Millet at Barbizon: 1. The field and the village of Chailly-en-Bière which served as decor for "The Gleaners" and "The Angelus"; 2. "The Angelus"; 3. Millet; 4. "The Gleaners"; 5. The dining room of Millet; 6. Millet's home. |
The
Barbizon school was part of an art movement towards
Realism in
painting, which arose in the context of the dominant
Romantic Movement
of the time, on the middle of the 19th century, roughly from 1830
through 1870. It takes its name from the village of
Barbizon, near the
Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Some of the
most prominent features of this school are its tonal qualities, color,
loose brushwork, and softness of form.
The
founders of this school were
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot,
Théodore Rousseau,
Jean-François Millet, and
Charles-François Daubigny, whom have
joined many others. Influenced by Dutch and English landscapers, they
made nature the subject of their paintings, largely abandoning classical
style. Millet (1814-1875), as also Rousseau (1812-1867), settled at
Barbizon, where lived until the end of their lifes.
Millet
extended the idea from landscape to figures - peasant figures, scenes
of peasant life, and work in the fields. In
The Gleaners (1857), for
example, he portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. Millet
shifted the focus and the subject matter from the rich and prominent to
those at the bottom of the social ladders. To emphasize their anonymity
and marginalized position, he hid their faces.
About the stamps
The stamps are a joint mission France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Italy and Uruguay,
Football World Championship, issued on April 30, 2002.
References
Barbizon school - Wikipedia
Jean-François Millet - Wikipedia
Sender: L. Fiffafoux
Sent from Barbizon (Île-de-France / France), on 03.10.2015
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