Realism - Gustave Courbet

 


The Fishing Boat
1865
Oil on canvas
64,8 x 81,3 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.

The Stone Breakers, 1849

Gustave Courbet didn’t believe that this vision of the world provided people with the things they really wanted art to offer them. He believed that art could be used as a tool to reflect the realities of the world in which he lived. He hoped that it could highlight the hardships people faced in day to day life and in so doing, he sought to move people to consider their perceptions of the world around them. 



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