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"Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error; so listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions." - Corot
Corot was the central figure in the development of French 19th-century landscape painting. Xlith Theodore ROUSSEAU, Corot came increasingly to be associated with outdoor or PLEIN AlR painting. Early in his career Corot traveled widely throughout Europe, including three visits to Italy. He taught two generations of painters, lived to the age of 80, and was extremely prolific. His productivity plus his popularity led to a multitude of forgeries and the joke that Corot had painted 3,000 pictures, of which 6,000 were in America. He began to paint the landscape during a period when it was still ran ked below HISTORY PAINTING in France (see ACADEMY). However, an interest in the countryside, weather, and other natural phenomena was consistent with the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), who sought truth and saw morality in the "primitive," natural world . While the English landscape painter CONSTABLE preceded and perhaps influenced Corot, Constable's comment that "painting is a science," next to Corot's appeal to "feeling," high lights distinctions between them. Corot felt, and offered his audience, the beauty of the landscape: not morality or social commentary, but the pleasure of visual sensation. Perhaps there are allusions to music as well; it is suggested that Corot's favorite composers, Beethoven and Mozart, influenced the moods and rhythms of Corot's art. There is a soft focus, a sense of many semitransparent veils, and a gentle atmospheric ambience and subtlety in Corot's later landscapes. Souvenir of Mortefontaine (1864), for example, is two-thirds taken up with the feathery amplitude of the silvery green, leafy branches of a tree. Behind it the perfectly still, silvery water melds, on the horizon, into a soft sky of the same colors. It is an altogether harmonious picture.
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