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"Imagine an immense plain.. ..in the middle, a small Gothic chapel surrounded by trees.. ..around that a hundred tents made of white canvas.. ..in open-air kitchens huge pots of boiling soup, incredible ragouts.."
Eugène BoudinEverything that is painted directly and on the spot always has strengt — Eugène Boudin
"Everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has strength, a power, and a vivacity of touch one cannot recover in the studio.. .Three strokes of the brush in front of nature are worth more than two days of work at the easel [in the studio]."
Eugène Boudin
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Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".
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"I dare not think of the sun-drenched beaches and the stormy skies, and of the joy of painting them in the sea breezes."
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"I am obsessed with the idea of leaving. I must travel, for that would probably relax me."
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"[I have] done various series of seascapes in different genres, beaches which demonstrated if not great art at least a reasonably faithful reproduction of the people of our age."
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"You know the affection I have always had for you and also the gratitude. I have never forgotten that you were the first who taught me to see and to comprehend."
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