"Sketches on Glass: Clichés-Verre from The New York Public Library" Exhibition
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At Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Media: Prints, Other
Cliché-verre is a technique that combines aspects of printmaking and photography. Developed around 1839, this process begins with a glass plate on which an artist either paints a design or scratches a design on a prepared ground. The glass plate is then treated as a negative and placed on top of light-sensitive paper and exposed to the sun. Artists of the Barbizon school were the first, and most prolific, experimenters with this technique. These artists, who lived and worked near the forest of Fontainebleau, celebrated the natural world. They turned away from both classical and romantic treatments of landscape and chose to depict humble scenes based on their direct observations of nature.
Schedule
From 2008-03-07 To 2008-06-28
Artist(s)
Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, Jean François Millet et al.
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