Interrupted reading by Camille Corot

Interrupted reading by Camille Corot

How to determine the place of the portrait painter? In relation to him, as well as to many artists of the 19th century portrait, it is difficult to apply any stable definitions. Koro, unquestionably, contributes to the area of the portrait, which has an interest in the character’s everyday characterization.

In the late period of creativity, when appealing to female images, he seeks the embodiment of a dream, an abstract ideal of the beautiful, drawing closer to the classicists. And the very desire of Koro to convey in the portrait serenity, something forever beautiful – is not it a romantic utopia, a naive disconnect from the complexities of time?

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