Hello!
How are you? Today I have given you a handout - a reading about the 19th-century French artist Gustave Courbet. This is his picture above.
This painting is one of his greatest works, The Stone-Breakers. It was first exhibited in 1850 in Paris, and it caused shock and outrage over its unsentimental depiction of peasant life.
This is another of the paintings he exhibited that year and that also caused a deep and negative reaction - A Burial At Ornans:
Activity
Read the handout with your classmates and look at the paintings as you read. Both of these paintings are mentioned in the handout as key to understanding Courbet and his work. You can click on the images to make them larger.
What do you think of these paintings? He supported workers' rights and allied himself with social causes. Do you believe that he was able to effectively tell the kind of story he wanted in them?
I hope you find these interesting.
See you next time!
This is another of the paintings he exhibited that year and that also caused a deep and negative reaction - A Burial At Ornans:
Read the handout with your classmates and look at the paintings as you read. Both of these paintings are mentioned in the handout as key to understanding Courbet and his work. You can click on the images to make them larger.
What do you think of these paintings? He supported workers' rights and allied himself with social causes. Do you believe that he was able to effectively tell the kind of story he wanted in them?
I hope you find these interesting.
See you next time!
Images: Top - By ナダール - The photo can be found at http://www.stellaweb.ch/nadar/pg/courbet.htm. The portrait was taken by Nadar. Spots in the image have been retouched., パブリック・ドメイン, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51505/The Stone-Breakers - By
Gustave Courbet - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM,
2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public
Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149656/
A Burial At Ornans - By Gustave Courbet - Google Art Project: Home
- pic Maximum resolution., Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20250332
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