Corot: Where Landscapes Meet Romance
让-巴蒂斯·卡米耶·科洛(Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot)(1796–1875)法国著名的现实主义画家。早年他是一位商人，26岁开始转行，成为一名画家，为后世留下了大量风景画和肖像画。
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875) is a famous French realist painter. In his early years, he was a businessman. At the age of 26, he changed his career and became a painter, leaving behind many landscape paintings and portraits for later generations.
早年科洛的画作具有轮廓清晰，笔触细腻的特点，胜在“精确”描绘。
In his early years, Corot’s paintings were characterized by clear outlines and delicate brushstrokes, often seen better than “accurate” depictions.
但在他50岁后，他的作品更加注重氛围的营造，强调画中的“诗意”。可以看到此时画面中的云朵、树木、草地都给人带来朦胧和蓬松的感受。科洛画中所使用的“羽毛状”笔触成为他的特色，而科洛本人也被认为是印象派的先驱。但与印象派画家不同的是，科洛在颜色的选择上偏向于深绿色、银绿色、棕色、黑色等深冷色调，而这些颜色并非印象派画家的首选。
But after he was 50 years old, his works paid more attention to the creation of the atmosphere, emphasizing the “poetry” in the painting. It can be seen that the clouds, trees, and grass in the picture at this time all give people a hazy and fluffy feeling. The “feather-like” brushstrokes used in Corot’s paintings became his characteristic, and Corot himself was considered a pioneer of Impressionism. Unlike impressionist painters, Corot prefers dark green, silver green, brown, and black in his choice of colors, and these colors are not the first choice of impressionist painters.
科洛的作品兼具典雅、浪漫、真实，是艺术史上承前启后的重要人物，也是19世纪最伟大的风景画家之一。
Corot’s works are both elegant, romantic, and authentic. Being one of the most important figures in art history and one of the greatest landscape painters in the 19th century, Corot has been remembered as a great pioneer for the next generation painters.
