How the French master of Realism launched an unvarnished and brooding vision of nature With a vehement, political commitment to Realism in art, French painter G
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) is considered to have introduced the practice of socially engaged painting, and he is viewed as one of the most important representa
The French Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-77), a pivotal figure in the emergence of modern painting, remains an artist whose interests, attitudes, and fr