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Topic: Courbet

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Most admires:Ruud Lubbers,  Lord Dracula
Favorite artist(s):Renoir,  Claude Monet,  Vincent Van Gogh
Favorite author(s):Winslow Homer,  Honore de Balzac,  Victor Hugo
Favorite era(s):1800s
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"Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D H Lawrence
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Favorite great leader(s):Dolfuss,  Charles de Gaulle
Favorite royal(s):Catherine Medicis,  Antoinette of France
Favorite destination(s):Paris,  France,  Europe
Favorite sportsperson(s):Michel Platini
 
 
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

The Luncheon of the Boating Party and approximately 50 other works from the Phillips’ European holdings, including works by Cézanne, Courbet, Daumier, Degas, van Gogh and Monet, will be traveling across the country until the summer of 2004 with the exhibition Art Beyond Isms.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Unlike painters such as Courbet and Daumier, who were able to directly use the emotions brought on by political upheaval to generate some of their greatest works, Bouguereau's inspirations from revolution took a much different path.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Like Constable, Francois Millet and Gustave Courbet challenged conventions of the day, choosing everyday subjects rather than the traditional cliches and presenting them in natural settings, the information for which came from sketches made in the field.
Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant

Nos pères ont ri de Courbet, et voilà que nous nous extasions devant lui ; nous rions de Manet, et ce seront nos fils qui s'extasieront en face de ses toiles.
Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer

Courbet was led to write his article by news communicated at a session of the Academy of Sciences in late December 1895 (and covered briefly in Cosmos on 11 January), in which the Prince of Monaco had reported the capture of a sperm whale near the Azores.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

Courbet and Manet both gave an example to the younger painters in France in the relish with which, as realists, they pictured contemporary dress and the young Renoir, when he painted his newly-married friend Sisley with his wife, was likewise emboldened to make much of the current fashion in men's and women's clothes, though endowing them with an attraction that came from his visual approach.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

The works of such painters as Giotto, artist of the Florentine School, Jan van Eyck, founder of the Flemish School, Caravaggio and Jan Vermeer, Dutch genre painters, Diego Velazquez, artist of the Spanish School and Gustave Courbet, French artist of the Realist School are realist in their approach.
John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant

She pointed to historical precedents for this kind of discrimination: "Similar accusations of formal weakness, technical insufficiency, or even willful distortion were, of course, leveled at Courbet, Manet and even at the young Ingres, at least in part because the underlying politics of their art affronted 'normal,' i.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Precedents for Courbet's radically reductive seascapes are found in seventeenth-century Dutch painting and in English watercolors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that show a similar concern with water, light, and atmosphere.
She specializes in the art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, focussing particularly on the work of Gustave Courbet, the Impressionists, and issues concerning the representation of women and the work of women artists.
Featuring acclaimed paintings by artists who worked in France during the extraordinary period of creativity that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this exhibition showcases Breton, Corot, Courbet, Fantin-Latour, Gauguin, Matisse, Millet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Rousseau, Seurat, Sisley, and Van Gogh.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

An interactive upgrade of the famous painting by Gustave Courbet, (3D-Digital installation, 1996) at ONLINE-media: * wishes to emphasize the new screen culture, Ghent, Belgium.
 
 
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