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Courbet Reconsidered |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Jason Edward Kaufman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,925 Words, 18,425 Characters |
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In the democratization of French society that took place in the mid-nineteenth century, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) led the assault on elitist aesthetics. As Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) had displaced the sentimental and decadent pomp of the Rococo court with a robust, high-minded republican style, so Courbet, sixty years later, invaded the state-run art establishment, opposing its artificiality with his coarse brand of Realism.
Raised in Ornans, a village near Switzerland, Courbet came from a wealthy bourgeois family. After brief artistic training with former students of Baron Gros and David, the twenty-year-old arrived in Paris in 1839. Instead of enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he would have continued his Neo-Classical education, he copied Dutch, Flemish, Venetian,...
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... sports, music, politics, and the corporate community. It is with symbols drawn from these fields that modern artists must construct their themes. There must be a new art that deals with the pressing issues of our times and which proposes solutions by means of an articulate and contemporary form of expression. This is what Courbet championed, and this is what Western civilization needs today.
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