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Edgar Dega
Title: Edgar Dega
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 672 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Edgar Dega
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
(1796-1875)
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was born in Paris on July 16, 1796. His mother managed a fashionable dress shop in Paris on the Rue du Bac and as a result he spent his first four years with a family near I'sleAdam, and until 1807 lived in a pension on the Rue Vaugirard. He was sent afterwards on scholarship to a school in Rouen, but did not adapt well to his new environment, and in 1812, …showed first 75 words of 672 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 672 total…love and to paint nature for its own sake, and his landscapes were surprisingly sensitive. He possessed a true quality of vision and expressed a genuine poetic style in his work. Corot's paintings combined poetry, light and color to reveal a clear and intense truth. He enlightened the realm of landscape painting with a new naturalism, and a definite romanticism. Corot was a revolutionary artist and a precursor to the art of the next generation.
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