FREDERIC BAZILLE

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Frederic Bazille (1841-1870) was a French Impressionist painter. He lived only for 28 years (died in war), yet his few works mark him as a pioneer painter of Impressionism.

Bazille travelled to Paris, in 1862, for a career in medicine, but turned to painting. Many of his first paintings are realists, but the en plein air (on site drawing) work allowed him to capture the fast varying light with quicker and bolder brush strokes. He produced larger paintings in his studio, from the fast sketches.

Bazille became known for his paintings of figures with landscapes setting, the style, which was followed by his contemporaries. Artists like him began to use brighter palette. His work had a sense of immediacy. He was a close friend of Monet, Renoir and Sisley.

 

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