WINTER COAT. Realism. Musée de Beaux-Arts de Lyon (France.)
GARBILLADORAS Courbet was not the only thing that came to the country life, Jean-François Millet never ceased to describe either in a cloth after another, but their way of seeing was very different. Courbet wanted to express the revolutionary vitality farmer who is aware of the exploitation of which is the subject and, like the workers of the city, tends to subvert the unjust order of society to transform and improve their living conditions contrary, rather Millet shows another aspect of the personality of the peasants, resigned from the side who does not know or get to oppose or rebel, and exhausted, subject to the destination and events. Thus we have on one hand the energy and the stubbornness egocentric Courbet and, on the other, austerity, piety and modesty of Millet. In this painting, Courbet revolutionized the aesthetic of female beauty, beloved by the Romantic painters and represents a rural working (the models were his sister).
often has been criticized for Courbet's "vulgarity" and "trivialization" of his female characters, but critics have had to finally acknowledge that the solid figures of Courbet has a vitality and presence as deep as they are more specific than simple representatives miserabilist poetic conception "of the poor common people."
Beyond its intention to withdraw from a condition of life, Courbet box finds the strength and beauty in the ability of the composition and play of colors. The geometric rigor of the structure formed by the sturdy peasant moves his sieve, while his companion is based on sacks of wheat and the small farmer looks curiously at the trough, gives great strength to the table. The red dress woman in the center of the scene, the green of his companion, dark tones of the trough and the child come over the clear, yellow and ocher background.
No painter shows both pleasure or satisfaction in doing his own portrait. Just think of Van Gogh self-portraits, in which the artist seems to find the reason of existence, the meaning of life and death, or those of Rembrandt, which inevitably mark the stages of his life. Courbet is represented by a naive complacency, attitudes and theatrical emphatic that likes to take in your life, forging a romantic hero in the style of Byron, desperate (in the self-portrait of 1841, entitled precisely The desperate, it seems represent the terror and madness), exciting (in the Wounded Man, 1844) or mysterious as is the case.
This Self-Portrait with black dog allowed to enter for the first time at the Salon in 1844. The author paints a landscape (probably Bonnevaux valley in his native province), as romantic fashion introduced by the English painters of the late eighteenth century. Courbet
The dog and set up a strong point of attraction in the valley landscape, structured in a pyramidal composition, and next to a book artist and a cane.
The painter looks at us proud and somewhat ironically, his face framed by dark brim and long hair, romantic style. The dark tones of the face painter and dog silhouette stand out against the bright hues of ocher, blue and green are the charm of the picture. You can see the bottom traces of spatula, the artist used here for the first time this instrument. From then on he would use often to extend the dense matter of the colors.
Courbet Self-Portrait. The wounded man certainly symbolizes the release of Love Death or man in which beauty is revealed only in suffering, because, as Courbet entrusted to his friend the philosopher Proudhon: "... the true Beauty is only us in the suffering and pain. "
PORTRAIT OF JO. Realism. The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (USA.)
The painting depicts Johanna Heffernan, lover and future wife of James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler (American painter migrated to Europe, he worked in London and Paris, a friend of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Monet, Degas and Courbet, and precursor of Art Deco with his musical style becoming more refined and dimensional) during their stay at Trouville in 1865, while Courbet. It is said that this painting was made in a single session of poses, which seem to confirm its freshness and spontaneity. Juliette Courbet, a sister of the artist, talks about the young lady, whom he visited, in a letter to Castagnary 1882. Note that they called "Beauty of Ireland", which he received the most outstanding in Paris and owned several paintings by Courbet. Johanna serve as a model several times and also Courbet Toulou-Lautrec and Whistler course. The artists were fascinated by his fiery hair that framed her beautiful face. This flexible hair that flowed to the comb fingers is precisely the central theme of the fabric of Courbet. Jo depicted half body and the frame is delimited by the mirror held in his left hand (superbly drawn). This portrait was part of a series of paintings done between 1860 and 1870, alternating with painted turtles in the company of Whistler. All are characterized by a sensual and sensitive search of light, which is also, for example, in the young of gulls or the three little English.
the blog header. Peasants of Flagey. Realism. Musée de Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie. Besancon. France. Brief Biographical
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France. (1819-1877)
born June 10, 1819 at Ornans, in the heart of a prosperous peasant family, who provided a good education. In 1841 he came to Paris to follow parents' aspirations for law school, but with the secret intention of training as a painter copying and analyzing the masters of the Louvre. Studied especially Velázquez and Ribera, and other English painters of the seventeenth century.
In 1871 he was appointed director of the museums of Paris in the revolutionary Paris Commune, from that position, he managed to save the collections of the Louvre's Tuileries fire and plunder of the masses, however, after the fall of the Commune, was falsely accused of having allowed the demolition of Napoleon's column, located on the Place Vendome, was imprisoned and forced into exile in 1873.
be moved to Verey (Switzerland) where he died on December 31, 1877.
Fuentes. THE CITY OF PAINT AND UNDERSTAND THE PAINT, Ediciones Orbis, 1869
