Gustave Courbet and artworks E-Book

Patrick Bade

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 40

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster and brutality which makes the revolutionary count in art as well as in politics. In both directions his spirit of revolt manifested itself. He went to Paris to study art, yet he did not attach himself to the studio of any of the prominent masters. Already in his country home he had had a little instruction in painting, and preferred to study the masterpieces of the Louvre. At first his pictures were not sufficiently distinctive to arouse any opposition, and were admitted to the Salon. Then followed the Funeral at Ornans, which the critics violently assailed: “A masquerade funeral, six metres long, in which there is more to laugh at than to weep over.” Indeed, the real offence of Courbet’s pictures was that they represented live flesh and blood. They depicted men and women as they really are and realistically doing the business in which they are engaged. His figures were not men and women deprived of personality and idealised into a type, posed in positions that will decorate the canvas. He advocated painting things as they are, and proclaimed that la vérité vraie must be the aim of the artist. So at the Universal Exposition of 1855 he withdrew his pictures from the exhibition grounds and set them in a wooden booth, just outside the entrance. Over the booth he posted a sign with large lettering. It read, simply: “Courbet – Realist.” Like every revolutionary, he was an extremist. He ignored the fact that to every artist the truth of nature appears under a different guise according to his way of seeing and experiencing. Instead, he adhered to the notion that art is only a copying of nature and not a matter also of selection and arrangement. In his contempt for prettiness Courbet often chose subjects which may fairly be called ugly. But that he also had a sense of beauty may be seen in his landscapes. That sense, mingled with his capacity for deep emotion, appears in his marines – these last being his most impressive work. Moreover, in all his works, whether attractive or not to the observer, he proved himself a powerful painter, painting in a broad, free manner, with a fine feeling for colour, and with a firmness of pigment that made all his representations very real and stirring.

Leseprobe

Patrick Bade

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ISBN: 978-1-78160-847-0

Contents

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A

After Dinner at Ornans,1849

Almsgiving from a Beggar in Ornans,1868

The Awakening,1866

B

Beach in Normandy, 1869

The Bathers, 1853

The Beach at Trouville at Low Tide,1865

The Black Well,1869

The Blue Source,1872

A Burial at Ornans,1850

The Bridge at Ambressum,1857

The Bridge of Fleurier,1873

The Bridge,1864

C

The Cave de la Loue,1864

The Cellist,1847-1848

Chillon Castle,1874

The Charente at Port-Berteau,1862

The Cliff of Étretat after the Storm,1869

The Covered Stream or The Stream of the Black Well,1865

Crumbling Rocks, 1864

D

Deer Reserve at Plaisir-Fontaine,1866

Dressing the Dead Girl,c. 1850

The Diligence in the Snow,1860

The Draughts Players,1844

E

The Encounter or Bonjour Monsieur Courbet,1854

F

Fantastic View of Amorphous Rocks,c. 1865

Fishing Boat, 1865

Flowers, 1861

G

The German Hunter,1859

The Girl with the Seagulls, Trouville,1865

The Grain Sifters,1855

Grape Harvest in Ornans at Roche du Mont,1849

Guitarrero,1844

The Gour de Conche, 1864

H

TheHammock,1844

Hunter on horseback,1867

Hunters in the Snow,1867

The Homecoming,c.1854

The Hunting Lunch,1858

J

Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl,1866

K

Killing the Deer or Scene of a Hunt in the Snow,1867

L

The Lady of Frankfurt,1858

Large Oak Trees by the waterside, Port-Berteau,1862

Landscape with Snow,1868

Le Château d’Ornans,c.1855

Loth and his Daughters,1844

Lovers in the Country,1844

The Lock of the Loue,1865

M

Man Filled with Fear,c. 1843-1845

Marine,1866

Mother Grégoire,1855

O

Origin of the World,1866

The Oak Tree of Flagey, also called Oak Tree of Vercingetorix,1864

The Old Mill,c. 1875

P

The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory Summing up Seven Years of my Artistic and Moral Life

Panorama of the Alps, La Dent du Midi,1877

The Peasants of Flagey Returning from the Fair (Doubs),1850

The Pirate Held Prisoner by the Dey of Algiers,1844

Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot,1861

Portrait of a Young Woman,1842

Portrait of Alfred Bruyas,1853

Portrait of Baudelaire,1848

Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau, 1862

Portrait of Juliette Courbet, 1845

Portrait of Laure Borreau,1863

Portrait of Madame Brayer,1858

Portrait of Marc Trapadoux,c.1849

Portrait of Mathilde Cuoq,1857

Portrait of Pierre Dupont, 1868

Portrait of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and his Children,1865

Portrait of Régis Courbet, 1873

Portrait of the Artist known as The Desperate,c.1843-1845

Portrait of the artist or The Man with Leather Belt,1846

Portrait of the Countess Palma Karoly,1865

The Poor Village Lady, Ornans,1866

Q

The Quarry

R

Reflexion or Meditation,1864

The Rock of Hautepierre,c.1869

The Ruse,1866

S

The Sarrazine Cave,1864

Self-Portrait at Sainte-Pélagie,c. 1873

Self-Portrait with Black Dog,c. 1844

Self-Portrait: Man with Pipe,1848-1849

Sleep, 1866

Still Life–Apples,1871-1872

Still Life with Apples and Pomegranate,1871-1872

Still-life–Flowers,1863

Still-life–Fruits,1871-1872

Study for one of the Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine,1856

Study for the Return of the Conference,1862

Study for The Young Ladies of the Village,1851

Sunset on Lake Leman,1874

The Sea,1872

The Sleeping Spinner,1853

The Somnambulist,1865

The Source of the Loue,1864

The Source of the Loue,1864

The Source,1868

The Spanish Lady,1854

The Springtime Rut or Battle of the Stags,1861

The Stonebreakers,c.1850

The Stormy Sea,1870

T

The Three Bathers,1868

The Trellis,1862

Three English Girls at the Window,1865

Three Trouts from the Loue,1872

V

The Valley of the Loue in Stormy Weather,1849

The Vintager of Montreux, 1874

View of Lake Léman with a Cloudy Sky,1874

View of Saintes,1863

W

The Wave,1869

The Wave,c. 1870

The Woman in the Waves,1868