Example sentences for: corot

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  • The Met, in an effort to show off Corot's strengths in genres other than landscape, makes room for his large-scale Salon paintings, few of which exist in American collections.

  • Corot is often referred to as a pioneer of plein-air painting, but as the Brooklyn show, called "In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting," makes clear, the practice of making outdoor sketches in oil was well-established by the time of his first Italian campaign in 1826.

  • Corot was born in 1796, and his 200 th birthday is the pretext for two mesmerizing shows in New York this fall: a wide-ranging retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a more specialized show at the Brooklyn Museum built around Corot's Italian visits.

  • (During the final year of his life, Corot was still fidgeting with the unconvincing antlers sprouting from poor Actaeon's head.)

  • He moved, however, not toward anything resembling social protest; one of Corot's rare representations of modernization--a view of a textile factory with a woman sitting at a pre-industrial spinning wheel in the foreground--is more wistful than indignant.


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