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Topic: Gustave Courbet

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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Such familiar works as Gustave Courbet's Bathers and Manet's Luncheon on the Gross and Olympia were considered obscene.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Realists like Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) would avoid classical material altogether in his figure compositions, turning exclusively to scenes of quotidian contemporary reality, which the impressionists would continue to focus on and transform with their revolution of light and color)
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Toulouse-Lautrec, whose sketchy style impressed him greatly.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Individual artists ignored this categorizing, of course, but it wasn't until Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and his philosophy of realism and pure painting that still life began a life as an independent vehicle for form, color and paint surface, divorced from the classifications of the Academy.
Cezanne especially admired the romantic painter Eugène Delacroix and, among the younger masters, Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet.
The French Gustave Courbet rebelled against the Romantic style of painting, and led the realist movement.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Gustave Courbet exiled to Switzerland (1873) The term 'Impressionism' comes into use to describe the painting of artists like Claude Monet (1873)
In fact, 1866 is cited as the date of the first work of cunt art--Gustave Courbet's painting "The origin of the world.
Gustave Courbet was the chief architect and champion of Realism - the rejection of all idealization.
Jordan Jones,
Rapper

In Paris he studied with the well-known artist Gustave Courbet, and met artists such as Pisarro, Cezanne, Monet and Degas.
 
 
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