Essays on Gustave Courbet

1566, oil on wood

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium "'THE CENSUS AT BETHLEHEM'". Google Cultural Institute, https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/zQKyGcrY3z1hKQ. The Census at Bethlehem (also known as The Numbering at Bethlehem) by Pieter Bruegel is a part of the collection of Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium as Bruegel was Flemish renaissance artist. The painting can be seen in great detail through Google Cultural Institute, which is very handy because, similarly to Bosch, Pieter Bruegel includes a lot of details and a diverse number of actions going on. Because of that the viewer may be looking at a painting for a long ...

Comparing the innovations of Gustave Courbet to those of Edouard Manet

French artist Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was born in a small town in the east, but from the moment he came to Paris to study art he became a risk taker and revolutionary and, subsequently a pioneering figure in the history of modernism. He is famous now not only for his brilliant art pieces, but also for his lust for controversy, his radical vision that stayed with his till the end of his life (SithsonianMag). He became a real sensation at the Salon of 1850–51 when he showed to the public that daily, common life in his village ...

Introduction

Every artwork is done with regards to the subject matter and artistic styles which varies from one art to another. Most artists embraces different artistic styles in presenting the artwork where most of their work are influenced by the main goal of the paintings as well as the events that took place at that time. This paper is going to describe three paintings and compare them in regards to their artistic styles and subject matter. Also, the factors that influence the changes in their artistic styles and subject matter will be elucidated. The work in chapter 21 is “The ...