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Description:While the large-scale figural works of Gustave Courbet’s early to mid-career—pictures such as Burial at Ornans, The Stonebreakers, and The Studio of the Painter—are of signal importance to the history of Western art, it is in the genre of landscape that the artist laid the groundwork for a vital current of Modernist painting. A young turk from the provinces who made his mark in Paris, he promoted his image as a gregarious outsider, passionate, physically robust, and profoundly ambitious. Drawing inspiration from natural motifs, Courbet reset the course of French painting to embrace immediacy, vitality, and painterly self-expression.Courbet and the Modern Landscape accompanies the first major museum exhibition to address the artist's extraordinary achievement in the genre of landscape painting. The book illustrates a highly selective group of landscapes from 1855 to 1877, most of them from the 1860s, when Courbet discovered in the countryside of his native Franche-Comté and on the shores of the Normandy coast a consistently rich source of visual stimulation. Many of the paintings—from collections in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States—will be new to general readers of art history, and their juxtaposition will be a revelation to both experts and amateurs alike. Essays by the curators examine Courbet's distinctly modern practice of landscape painting. Mary Morton's essay situates his landscapes in relation to his work in other genres, his critical reputation, and his role in establishing a new pictorial language for landscape painting. Charlotte Eyerman's essay investigates how later generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists responded to Courbet's example. The catalogue also includes an essay by Dominique de Font-Reaulx, curator of photographs at the Musee d'Orsay, on the relationship between Courbet's work and landscape photography of the 1850s and 1860s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Courbet and the Modern Landscape. To get started finding Courbet and the Modern Landscape, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: While the large-scale figural works of Gustave Courbet’s early to mid-career—pictures such as Burial at Ornans, The Stonebreakers, and The Studio of the Painter—are of signal importance to the history of Western art, it is in the genre of landscape that the artist laid the groundwork for a vital current of Modernist painting. A young turk from the provinces who made his mark in Paris, he promoted his image as a gregarious outsider, passionate, physically robust, and profoundly ambitious. Drawing inspiration from natural motifs, Courbet reset the course of French painting to embrace immediacy, vitality, and painterly self-expression.Courbet and the Modern Landscape accompanies the first major museum exhibition to address the artist's extraordinary achievement in the genre of landscape painting. The book illustrates a highly selective group of landscapes from 1855 to 1877, most of them from the 1860s, when Courbet discovered in the countryside of his native Franche-Comté and on the shores of the Normandy coast a consistently rich source of visual stimulation. Many of the paintings—from collections in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States—will be new to general readers of art history, and their juxtaposition will be a revelation to both experts and amateurs alike. Essays by the curators examine Courbet's distinctly modern practice of landscape painting. Mary Morton's essay situates his landscapes in relation to his work in other genres, his critical reputation, and his role in establishing a new pictorial language for landscape painting. Charlotte Eyerman's essay investigates how later generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists responded to Courbet's example. The catalogue also includes an essay by Dominique de Font-Reaulx, curator of photographs at the Musee d'Orsay, on the relationship between Courbet's work and landscape photography of the 1850s and 1860s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Courbet and the Modern Landscape. To get started finding Courbet and the Modern Landscape, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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