Info Gustave Courbet (jan 1, 1819 – jan 1, 1819)
Description:
-French painter, led realism movement; this movement (in France around 1850) protested against the romanticism by focussing on depicting nothing emotional, but real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, and not avoiding unpleasant aspects of life
-Social statements in work: for example; challenged convention by depicting unidealized peasants and workers
-Other subjects: landscapes, seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes and still lifes.
Works:
-The stonebreakers (1849)
-Funeral in Ornan (1849-1850)
Added to timeline:
Blok 1: De uitvinding van de kunst 1750-1850, Blok 2: The rise of the present (1850-1900) and Blok 3: The hunt for the future Blok 4: Het twistpunt van de tijd (1950-1990)
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