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gustave courbet
Gustave Courbet was an eminent 19th-century French painter and one of the leading figures of the Realist movement in art. Over the course of his career, he created more than a thousand works in a wide range of genres. Courbet pioneered a new approach to painting, rejecting the conventions of Romanticism and Classicism. His aim was to reveal the truth of life, employing the expressive means of direct observation and a realist interpretation of the world around him.
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Among Gustave Courbet’s most renowned masterpieces are The Origin of the World, The Burial at Ornans, and The Stone Breakers. Each of these canvases is remarkable for its sincerity and gravity of purpose, confronting urgent social issues and challenging the entrenched hierarchies of society. Today, Courbet’s works are held in major museums around the world, including the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, as well as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. They remain essential to understanding the evolution of 19th-century French painting.
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