"An archetypal petit-maître, landscape artist Georges Michel was little known in his lifetime but achieved some renown later in the nineteenth century as a source for the Barbizon School, thanks to his biographer Alfred Sensier. Michel specialized in the representation of windswept heaths, ofte...

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Main Author:	Taws, Richard 1977- (Author)
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	Michel, Georges > 1763-1843 Windmühle > Motiv Sturm > Motiv Schule von Barbizon Landschaftsmalerei Ikonographie
Summary:	"An archetypal petit-maître, landscape artist Georges Michel was little known in his lifetime but achieved some renown later in the nineteenth century as a source for the Barbizon School, thanks to his biographer Alfred Sensier. Michel specialized in the representation of windswept heaths, often beneath an incoming storm. Many paintings represent the hills of Montmartre, then an austere escarpment dotted with windmills and topped by the rotating arms of the optical telegraph. This essay examines the implications of Michel’s uneasy atmospherics. Michel’s fretful skies and abandoned, marginal plains employ the movement of the wind as a cipher for broader historical changes. Spanning the period covered by this book, Michel’s work is considered in terms of its complex engagement with the aftereffects of radical politics. Indeed, Michel’s paintings were brought to light by Sensier in a later post-revolutionary climate, in 1873, two years after the traumatic repression of the Paris Commune."
Physical Description:	Illustrationen
ISBN:	978-1-5013-4839-6