Gustave Courbet, the first realist

The vision of the French realist painter is presented through forty of his canvases. Traces his turbulent career: his early manhood in Ornans and Paris, his scorn of tuition, and rejection of Romantic subject matter. His participation in the Paris Commune in 1871 resulted in heavy fines, imprisonment, and exile. Examines his influence on many artists including Millet and Degas.
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The vision of the French realist painter is presented through forty of his canvases. Traces his turbulent career: his early manhood in Ornans and Paris, his scorn of tuition, and rejection of Romantic subject matter. His participation in the Paris Commune in 1871 resulted in heavy fines, imprisonment, and exile. Examines his influence on many artists including Millet and Degas.

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