![Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers, 1849
Gustave Courbet was born into a wealthy bourgeoisie family in 1819. However, after years of living in a classist, elitist society, he abandoned that glamorous lifestyle to become a bohemian artist in 1841. Courbet painted ordinary places and people to expose the less glamorous, less idealized country life of the poor French class. Normally, such images of the countryside were heavily idealized and picturesque; farms were depicted as beautiful landscapes in which the wealthy class took vacations from the city.
However, Courbet made it a goal to portray and expose the truth to the public, and to express true hardship and emotions, rather than fantasy. Courbet’s famous Stonebreakers painting caused much discomfort to the public, because most audiences were not accustomed to this dirty, exhaustive, and harsh style. Gustave is therefore considered to be the father of the Realist movement in the late 19th century.
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Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers, 1849
Gustave Courbet was born into a wealthy bourgeoisie family in 1819. However, after years of living in a classist, elitist society, he abandoned that glamorous lifestyle to become a bohemian artist in 1841. Courbet painted ordinary places and people to expose the less glamorous, less idealized country life of the poor French class. Normally, such images of the countryside were heavily idealized and picturesque; farms were depicted as beautiful landscapes in which the wealthy class took vacations from the city.
However, Courbet made it a goal to portray and expose the truth to the public, and to express true hardship and emotions, rather than fantasy. Courbet’s famous Stonebreakers painting caused much discomfort to the public, because most audiences were not accustomed to this dirty, exhaustive, and harsh style. Gustave is therefore considered to be the father of the Realist movement in the late 19th century.
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