GUSTAVE COURBET'S ART DRAMATIZED SOCIAL ISSUES
He became "Delegate to the Arts" — La Commune's Minister of Culture.
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His most famous work shows un-idealized peasants dominated by sinister priests. Painted immediately after June, it horrified many Catholics:
Un Enterrement à Ornans / zoom
Too famous to be deported, he was condemned to six months in prison. He left these somber drawings:
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He was associated with the destruction of the Vendôme column, though the decision was taken before his election and he disapproved of it:
He found it artistically poor — the figures all of the same size were "gingerbread men" — but suggested that it should be taken apart and its base, which illustrated the Republic, placed in the courtyard of the Invalides.*
This photo is his sole link with the demolition and it isn't him: he did not wear a military cap and the number on it is not that of his district's battalion.
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Yet he was condemned to finance the column's replacement and we see the copy that he partially funded. He died before the payment was complete, a ruined paria.
(In 1877)
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This fish is a self-portrait,
painted a few years before his death.
painted a few years before his death.
La Truite 1873, zoom
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