[ePub] Elmwood Park Zoo (Images of Modern America) by Stan Huskey at Arts-Photography

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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was French painter and draftsman. Of the painters classed in the Barbizon school it is probable that Corot will live the longest; and will continue to occupy the highest position. In his first style he painted traditionally and ldquo;tightrdquo; mdash; that is to say; with minute exactness; clear outlines; and with absolute definition of objects throughout. After his fiftieth year his methods changed to breadth of tone and an approach to poetic power; and from 1865 onwards; his manner of painting became full of ldquo;mysteryrdquo; and poetry. In artistic circles of Paris he was acknowledged as one of the five or six greatest landscape painters the world has ever seen; along with Hobbema; Claude; Turner and Constable. Besides landscapes; of which he painted several hundred; Corot produced a number of figure pictures which are much prized but he executed a few etchings and pencil sketches.