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Masters of Landscape: Impressionist Albert Lebourg
Today I bring you another of the great impressionist painters, also considered one of the best landscape painters of the impressionist period, one of the elements that incorporated impressionism was to represent many landscapes in order to redefine the tradition of classical or realistic art where the use of religious and related images prevailed. Today it is Albert Lebourg's turn. Come with me to know the highlights of his life and work.
Albert Lebourg was born in France in the city of Montfort-sur-Risle in 1849. His formation and group would be the school of Rouen. Although he was more linked to architecture, after having his first steps in painting, he met several of the greats of impressionism such as Victor Delamarre and Gustave.
Thanks to the fact that he met Morin, he fell in love with painting, which became a reference point to follow his path through painting. He studied art at the art school in his city, but soon his life would take an unexpected turn when he met an Algerian gallery owner and art curator, Laperlier, who convinced Lebourg to go on a trip to Algeria where he was well received and was able to sell several works.
Then he returns to Paris where he marries and meets the person who most influenced his life and artistic work, the Lyonnais painter Seignemartin managed to change Lebourg drastically his prictoric style, managing to make much brighter paintings in the reflections of what Claude Monet himself, innovating before another painter. By 1877 he met all those who made up the Impressionist movement, was quickly accepted and managed to exhibit with the great Impressionist painters of the time.
Although he did not live all his life in France, he manages to travel to other countries like Switzerland, England in dode readjusts his technique to continue with the impressionism, but in if all his great production is based in Paris, but the times changed and thanks to being linked to his roots it was very difficult to be manipulated by other painters, the world of the art. Returning always to Paris where he continues obtaining a medium but sure recognition and with good practices of the use of the techniques.
In his work we will be able to appreciate the highlights of Parisian life at the time and almost all his production was destined to become impressionist. a style that as we have talked on other occasions meant the rupture of classic traditional art, neo-classical.
His life was spent painting different forms, perhaps was a little quiet and without participating socially, but his painting became an international benchmark and even today is studied in different.
Another important aspect of impressionism is that they changed all the past icons used by the Catholic Church for example or the empires that sent to commission portraits or symbolic paintings, impressionism changed the scenarios for cities and common people to make portraits. But there were also impressionists who painted the bourgeoisie of the time.
This closed a dark period of domination to open a new vision of art, which allowed other styles to emerge that are still valid today. Albert Lebourg became an obligatory study reference in many schools of fine arts today.
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