COURBET, Gustave

1819 Ornans – 1877 La-Tour-de-Peilz. Realism

After attending the grammar school, Courbet began to study law in Paris in 1840. In painting he was largely self-taught, learning his art by copying the old masters (Velázques, Hals, Rembrandt and the Venetians) in the Louvre, and in Holland where he stayed in 1846. The themes of his early works, taken from Goethe’s Faust and the books of Victor Hugo and George Sand, still bear the strong mark of Romanticism which he was soon to reject. In 1849/50 his first realistic pictures are produced at his home town of Ornans, which were considered revolutionary. Revolutionary they certainly were in their choice of subject, depicting the life of simple people.
Courbet, who influenced and advised the budding Impressionists, has become a major representative world-wide of a naturalistic realism which shows up inconsistencies in reality by means of artistic devices.

Burial at Ornans	L’Origine de Monde	Plage de Normandie
1849-1850	1866	1866

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