"When I stop being controversial, I'll stop being important," Gustave Courbet ... animals, still life - a legacy of unforgettable images. Impressive, yes. But with Courbet, "achievement" seems ...

Gustave Courbet was already an art star but still itching for greater renown when ... A Real Allegory of Seven Years of My Artistic Life. Courbet portrayed himself not as a figure painter, though ...

[1] While artists go in and out of fashion for various reasons, the renewed interest of late in French painter Gustave Courbet ... In his own lifetime Courbet's larger-than-life image as an ...

Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, a rural French village along the border with Switzerland, into a family rising into the bourgeois class of land and business owners. His father pressed ...

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After 175 years, Gustave Courbet’s slow procession of mourners still stirs even the hardened modern heart. Most obviously, this is because it unflinchingly confronts mankind’s eternal subject ...

Over the two days of the attack, Dresden went up in flames consuming everything in its path including a still unknown number ... the most important: Gustave Courbet’s “The Stonebreakers.” ...

A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly ... of the Commune by the national French Army, Courbet spent the last several years of his ...