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Schools Inspired by Barbizon
Pont-Aven
Another popular colony of French nineteenth century plein-air artists,
inspired by Barbizon, was the Breton village of Pont-Aven on the south
coast of Brittany. The Pont-Aven school of fine
art painting was most active in the 1880s and 1890s, when famous
artists like Paul Gauguin, Serusier, Seguin, were searching for post-Impressionist
ideas. In particular, they sought to replace the naturalist approach of
Claude Monet's pure Impressionism
with an un-naturalistic colour scheme, outlined forms and clear patterns.
in addition, they sought to inject human significance into ordinary scenes
by means of a hightened use of colour and form and emphatic deliniation.
Irish landscape artists who
worked at Pont-Aven, included: Augustus
Nicholas Burke, Aloysius
O'Kelly, Roderic O'Conor,
Stanhope Alexander Forbes,
Nathaniel Hill, Walter Osborne,
Norman Garstin, and
Joseph Malachy Kavanagh. Later, William
Scott and Geoffrey Nelson established the Pont-Aven School of Painting.
Concarneau
Another village in Brittany, Concarneau,
was the site of a third French congregation of landscape artists at the
end of the century. The Impressionist landscape and genre painter William
John Leech was one of the plein air Irish
artists who worked in Concarneau. See also: Plein-Air
Painting in Ireland.
The English
Newlyn School
During the 1880s, no doubt influenced by
the formation of Barbizon, Pont-Aven and Concarneau in France, the Cornish
fishing town of Newlyn began to attract plein air English landscape artists,
attracted by the scenery, light, and seascape of West Cornwall. Members
of the Newlyn School included Stanhope Forbes, Frank Bramley and others.
Newlyn painters practised the Impressionist method of working outdoors
en plein air, and incorporated subject matter drawn from rural
life. Great Newlyn works include, A Hopeless Dawn (1888) by Frank Bramley.
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