Gustave Courbet, the Revolutionary Artist
The spirit of protest in the artist’s work
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7 min readMar 30, 2022
Adored or hated, often controversial, Gustave Courbet is considered today one of the major painters of the 19th century. We know his self-portraits, we know his sulfurous Origin of the World, we know his political commitment. But what is important to know is that his arrival in the French artistic landscape during the…
