Courbet Gustave

The work of Gustave Courbet “Crushers of stones” tells about the deep poverty that can only meet on the way out of town. The artist himself said that he was returning from […]

Looking at the work of the French artist Gustave Courbet, there is no doubt that he was the most ingenious master of the portrait. And he wrote not only portraits of other […]

At the Paris exhibition, the realistic picture became an event. The artist felt himself a pioneer, making the central theme of works of art of his contemporaries engaged in everyday activities. Of […]

The Veal Girl is the work of Gustav Courbet, written in 1854. She was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1855, and then in 1861 at the so-called Ninth Exhibition of the […]

In the last years of his life, Courbet painted beautiful seascapes. The artist called his marines – landscapes of the sea, insisting on this term and focusing on the sea. Although one […]

The erotic picture “The Sleepers” was painted by the Western European artist Gustave Kurbe in 1866 by order of a diplomat from the Ottoman Empire, who at that time lived in Paris. […]

The Frenchman Gustave Courbet in the course of creative development passes from romanticism to realism. Pictures in both genres are equally interesting and valuable. The artist worked in a romantic direction, creating […]

The painting “Artist’s Workshop” by the French painter Gustave Courbet was painted in 1855 with the use of oil paints and canvas, whose size was almost 6 meters long and at least […]

The canvas was presented at the Paris Salon in 1866 and immediately won success with the audience, who were always attracted by the beauty of the naked female body. There is an […]

The scandalous picture of Gustave Courbet “Bathers” caused a wide public response when it was presented to society. The artist has violated almost every conceivable tradition, adopted in depicting people, besides women. […]