The Origin of the World
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Gustave Courbet
(b. 1819- d.1877), a French painter that focused lead the realism movement in 19th century France. Courbet's work inspired many other famous artists, such as, Monet, Cezanne, Hopper, Barrot, and Taslitzky. His art falls under realism, romanticism, and academic art.
The Desperate Man (1845)
The Wounded Man (1854)
Seascape (1874)
The Seaside at Palavas (1854)
La Rencontre (Bonjour Monsieur Courbet) (1854)
Mer Orageuse (Mar Borrascoso) (1850)
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31 décembre 1877 : mort du peintre Gustave Courbet ➽ http://bit.ly/Peintre-Gustave-Courbet Génie insubordonné auquel l’indépendance de caractère et la robuste individualité valurent inimitiés voire haines, Gustave Courbet est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’un des plus grands peintres du XIXe siècle, ayant infusé à l’art un sang nouveau, généreux et vivifiant
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The Sleepers, Gustave Courbet, 1866
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Louvre-Lens : il y a une expo : "Mondes souterrains : 20.000 Lieux sous la terre"
sur la 3 : Gao Xingjian : "'La Lueur". Détail amusant, nous, l'Atelier du Tigre, on a joué une de ses pièces il y a quelques années : "L'Autre Rive"
anonyme : "Vue d'une grotte" - 1750
Jean-Jacques Caffieri : "La Sibylle d'Erythrée" - 1759
Gustave Courbet : "Vue de la Caverne des Géant, près de Saillon" - 1873
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The famously overwrought self-portrait The Desperate Man (1843–45) by the French Realist Gustave Courbet remained in the artist’s studio until his death. In the modestly sized painting, the 24-year-old stares wild-eyed out at the viewer, his hands tearing at his flowing, unkempt hair. In his blousy white shirt and blue smock, Courbet here appears the quintessential Romantic artist—a tortured genius struggling for recognition and a bite to eat.
While familiar in this folkloric sense, The Desperate Man contrasts markedly with the public image Courbet had been steadily crafting for himself. Only a few years later, at the Paris salon of 1850–51, he would cause a sensation with confrontational canvases—The Stonebreakers (1849–50, since destroyed) and A Burial at Ornans (1849–50) among them—featuring ordinary people from his native Ornans depicted at a large scale typically reserved for lofty history painting.
The unvarnished realism of these works would establish Courbet as the proponent of a new art, one that reflected life—including the lower classes—as it is. “To know in order to do, that was my idea,” the artist wrote in 1855. “To be in a position to translate the customs, the ideas, the appearance of my time, according to my own estimation; to be not only a painter, but a man as well; in short, to create living art—this is my goal.”
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Hong Sang-soo
- Night and Day
2008
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Courbet scribble in the Musée d'Orsay
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"L'Atelier du peintre. Allégorie réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique et morale"
by Gustave Courbet
Oil Painting, 1855.
Musée d'Orsay.
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The Origin of the World (Hommage a Courbet)
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French Battleship Courbet in full dress at Cherbourg, France on July 16, 1925.
National Library of France: ark:/12148/btv1b53150806r, ark:/12148/btv1b531508059, ark:/12148/btv1b53150804v
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Gustave Courbet
The Sailboat (Seascape)
c. 1869
Clark Art Institute Collection
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Reclining Nude, Gustave Courbet, 1840-41
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btw never thought my history of art book could've made me carnally desire Courbet yet here I am in front of the biography of a man who got petty he didn't get accepted into the Salon so he opened up his own, exibited L'origine du monde, painted Vénus et Psyché, teared down Napoleon's column during the Third Republic, got arrested and heavily fined when it fell, fled to Switzerland and died the day before his first instalment for the reconstruction of the column was due.
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