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Celebrating the Birthday of Gustave Courbet, the Realist Pioneer

Artist Profile, On This Day /

Fine art is knowledge made visible. – Gustave Courbet Image Courtesy: Wikipedia Gustave Courbet was a renowned French artist and leader of the 19th century Realist movement. Courbet rebelled against the Romantic painting tradition, turning to everyday events for his subject matter. His huge shadowed canvases with their solid groups of figures, such as The […]

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Gustave Courbet: Critic of Romanticism, Founder of Social Realism

Artist Profile, Editorial, Opinion Feature /
Gustave Courbet and his painting

Gustave Courbet’s Contribution to the Art Community 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

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