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Courbet, Gustave |
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Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877)French artist. He was a portrait, genre, and landscape painter. Reacting against academic trends, both classicist and Romantic, he became a major exponent of realism, depicting contemporary life with an unflattering frankness. His Burial at Ornans (1850; Musée d'Orsay, Paris), showing ordinary working people gathered around a village grave, shocked the public and the critics with its ‘vulgarity’. His powerful genius found expression in portraiture, figure composition, landscape (the gorges and forests of his native Franche-Comte, and superb paintings of the Normandy coast, The Wave being famous in several versions), sensuous paintings of the nude, animal studies, and still life. He went to Paris 1841, his training mainly consisting in the study and imitation of old masters in the Louvre, especially Velázquez and Rembrandt. In defiance of both Romanticism and classicism he evolved the idea of realism, asserting, that is, that painting should consist in ‘the representation of real and existing things’, his aim therefore being, in his own words, to ‘interpret the manners, ideas and aspect of our own time’. In this there were some social and proletarian implications, as might be gathered from his Stonebreakers (1849; Dresden, destroyed 1945), and the Burial at Ornans (Louvre), with its sombre group of peasants, which caused an uproar when exhibited at the Salon of 1850.
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| Her early work was influenced by the realism of Gustave Courbet and Eduard Manet (2). Clark is a respected scholar of post-modern theory, Chancellor's Professor of Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of several books on early modernism, including The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France 1848-51; Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1999); and The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Monet and His Followers (1984). Saslow offers evidence of male homosexuality dating back to the Bronze Age and examples of lesbian imagery in paintings by Gustave Courbet and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. |
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