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Gustave Courbet: The Glamour of Strangeness, Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic

Artist Profile /

Gustave Courbet, the “proudest and most arrogant man in France,” is the founding father of the politically-motivated Realism campaign, revolutionising the European art setting. Gustave created a sensation at the Paris Salon in 1850-51 with his paintings portraying his native Ornans. In Paris Salon, Courbet questions the visual narratives of history and realistic painting with […]

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Gustave Courbet: Critic of Romanticism, Founder of Social Realism

Artist Profile, Columns, Featured /

Art scholars argued about Gustave Courbet, a founding father of the politically-motivated Realism campaign, revolutionising the European art setting. He is regarded as an originator and initiated the route for the Impressionists and, eventually, the genesis of modern art in Western art. In each art history domain, people are working to mark their names as

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Remembering Gustave Courbet, the fore-runner of the Realism Movement, on his birthday

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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, a painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting was born on this day, June 10, 1819. His works were to later influence the Impressionists and the Cubists. Born in a family that strongly held anti-monarchical sentiments, he grew up to be a politically active individual, and this attitude

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