Jean Desire Gustave Courbet
Jean Desire Gustave Courbet was
born on 10th June 1891 and died on 31st December 1877.
Courbet was a French painter who was a leader of the realist movement in 19th
century French painting. Courbet said “I am fifty years old and I have always
lived in freedom; let me end my life; when I am dead let this be said of me:
‘He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy,
least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty”. Courbet was best known
as an innovator in realism. He was a painter of figurative compositions,
landscapes and seascapes. He also did some work about peasantry and the horrendous
working conditions of the poor. His work didn’t belonged to the predominant
Romantic or Neoclassical schools. Courbet believed that the pursuit of truth was
the realist artist’s mission, helping to remove unfairness in society.
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| Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1866 |
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