Courbet

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French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877)

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The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cézanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity. Clement Greenberg

Courbet was elected to the Council of the Commune on 16 April, after the decision to tear down the column had already been made. Source: Internet

Many of France's leading intellectuals and artists had participated in the Commune ( Courbet was its quasi-minister of culture, Rimbaud and Pissarro were active propagandists) or were sympathetic to it. Source: Internet

Gustave Courbet was the most prominent artist to take part in the Commune, and was an enthusiastic participant and supporter, though he criticized its executions of suspected enemies. Source: Internet

Source and Bibliography about artists on the Mediterranean *Méditerranée de Courbet á Matisse, catalogue of the exhibit at the Grand Palais, Paris from September 2000 to January 2001. Source: Internet

The Big Oak, by Gustave Courbet (1843). Source: Internet

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