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Gustave Courbet: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)
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His work did not belong to either the Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. The historical painting that Paris Salon appreciated as the artist's highest calling did not interest him.
Instead, he claimed that the only possible source of live art was the artist's own experience. He and Jean-Francois Millet found inspiration for painting by peasants and workers.
Courbet drew figurative compositions, landscapes, seascapes, and still-lifes. He loved contrasts by dealing with social issues in his work and bringing subjects and objects that were considered some kind of vulgar, such as the rural bourgeoisie, the peasants, and the working life of the poor peoples. His art, along with that of Honoré Daumier and Jean-François Millet, became known as a trend in pictorial art called Realism.
For Courbet, realism was not limited to the imitating of the line and the form, but to spontaneous and rough handling of paint and color, which implied direct observation by the artist while depicting nature. He portrayed rudeness in life and thus challenged modern academic ideas about art.
Instead, he claimed that the only possible source of live art was the artist's own experience. He and Jean-Francois Millet found inspiration for painting by peasants and workers.
Courbet drew figurative compositions, landscapes, seascapes, and still-lifes. He loved contrasts by dealing with social issues in his work and bringing subjects and objects that were considered some kind of vulgar, such as the rural bourgeoisie, the peasants, and the working life of the poor peoples. His art, along with that of Honoré Daumier and Jean-François Millet, became known as a trend in pictorial art called Realism.
For Courbet, realism was not limited to the imitating of the line and the form, but to spontaneous and rough handling of paint and color, which implied direct observation by the artist while depicting nature. He portrayed rudeness in life and thus challenged modern academic ideas about art.
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Gustave Courbet - Raya Yotova
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Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, France. Since he was from a prosperous agricultural family, his household was dominated by anti-monarchical feelings. His maternal grandfather was a participant in the French Revolution.
Courbet's sisters were his first models of drawings. After he moving to Paris, Courbet often returned home to hunting, fishing, and find inspiration.
Courbet left for Paris in 1839 and worked at the Steuben and Hesse Studios. An independent spirit, he soon left the studio, preferring to develop his style by studying the paintings of the Spanish, Flemish and French masters in the Louvre and painting copies of their works.
Courbet's first work was Odalisque, inspired by the writing
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