Jules Dupré | The Barbizon school of painters

Born in 1811 in Nantes, Jules Dupré (1811-1889) spent his boyhood in L'Isle-Adam on the Oise river, near Paris.

Here he had his early initiation to art, as an apprentice decorator of porcelain in his father's china works.

At the age of twelve, he was sent to Paris, to work in the porcelain factory of an uncle, Arsène Gillet.

His fellow workers included several young artists who would play a role in his later life, among them Narcisse Diaz de la Peña🎨 (1808-1876).

Though during his early years in Paris, Dupré briefly studied with a painter of landscape, Jean-Michel Diebolt (b. 1779), he started on his artistic career nearly without formal training.

Luisa Villavicencio Aliaga | Visual Artist / Art Therapist

Luisa Villavicencio Aliaga: "I paint because I want to ask to everyone be better person, more expression of feeling and understanding.

Love is very important in the life of every human being.

My colors are intimately related with the shape, because my colors are saying, what I feel".

Charles-François Daubigny | The Barbizon school of painters

Charles-François Daubigny (15 February 1817 - 19 February 1878) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school🎨, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism🎨.

Daubigny was born in Paris, into a family of painters and was taught the art by his father Edmond François Daubigny and his uncle, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny.

The Barbizon school of painters

The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.

The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830-1870.

It takes its name from the village of Barbizon, France, near the Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Some of the most prominent features of this school are its tonal qualities, color, loose brushwork, and softness of form.

In 1824 the Salon de Paris exhibited works of John Constable, an British painter.

John Constable | Tramonto sulla Senna

Demetre Chiparus | Art Déco sculptor

Demétre Haralamb Chiparus, also known as Dumitru Haralamb Chipăruș (16 September 1886 - 22 January 1947) was a Romanian Art Déco* era sculptor who lived and worked in Paris, France. He was one of the most important sculptors of the Art Deco era.

Life

Demétre H. Chiparus was born in Dorohoi, Romania, the son of Haralamb and Saveta Chiparus. In 1909 he went to Italy, where he attended the classes of Italian* sculptor Raffaello Romanelli.