1796 - 1875
French
Beat 16th Century Italian Correggio in Round 1.
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Gustave Courbet
1819 - 1877
French
Defeated 15th Century Italian Francesco Del Cossa after a see-saw battle in Round 1.
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16 comments:
Corot. It's hard to say what the appeal is exactly (maybe I need to take an art appreciation course), but I do really like all 3 of those.
Corbet. Rhymes with sorbet.
Corot - graceful.
Courbet and his beards! Both are good, but I find myself more engaged by the scenarios in Courbet's paintings - even the beach painting is pretty and interesting.
Corot. That portrait is so expressive.
Yea, Jean-Baptiste-Camille. Wow, a triple barreled first name??
Corot.
Hmmm... I like what these guys led to more than I like them and I was prepared to continue to vote against them in future rounds. But now they face each other...
Courbet's bio biased me against him; he just sounded surprisingly cocky for a guy doing what Dutch artists had done 200 years before him. Pictures of peasants- Crazy!. But i do like his paintings more, particularly when he did start getting pretty scandalous with his choices. In general, there should be more pictures of prostitutes under trees, so he'll get my vote.
Corot
Sue
I'm leaning for Corot, but reserve the right to do the Chuckdaddy flop at any time.
And welcome to the show, Sue.
You know, I had thought of Corot as a yes-another-pretty-landscape guy, but when I compare his portraits to Courbet's I find myself repeatedly drawn to Corot's. So, hats off (ha) to Corot as the more subtle, fluid, and (perhaps) observant of the two.
Tough one; I think Courbet's beach scene is my favorite of all these, but I like all of Corot's better than Corbet's other two (and am too lazy to look up more). I'll go with Corot.
It's probably a stunningly obvious thing to say, but I find Corot's interesting from the color perspective--working in those cool neutrals for the first, and then the blue-greens for the second, and then, what would you call the third? A more natural palette? At any rate, the hues strike me as almost impressionistic, if--
[break to Google "Was Corot an Impressionist," which Google did a great job of autofilling for me, so clearly I'm not the first to wonder, or to try to take a shortcut to figuring it out]
So, here's what some other people said about Corot and Impressionism: "'There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing.' Claude Monet, 1897
'He is still the strongest, he anticipated everything ...' Edgar Degas, 1883"
I feel justified in my preference now, though I hadn't really felt a need to be justified before I looked him up and realized the depths of my ignorance once again.
An email voter breaks for Courbet!
Corot gets my vote - not that I don't like Courbet, but Corot's feel all easy and natural
Time's up! Put down your pencils. Corot never trails on the way to a 9-4 victory over Mr. Courbet. He moves on to a tough match against Salvador Dali next week!
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