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 after June, it presented intransigent Catholics in a hostile way:
A Burial at 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 he disapproved of the decision to demolish it,
taken before his election:
He found it artistically nil — 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. *
* For these facts and others, please click here (scrolling down) and here (both articles in French).
- This photo is his sole link with the demolition...
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- ...and it isn't him: He did not wear the military cap and the number on it is not that of his district's battalion.
Yet he was condemned to finance its 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.
The Trout,1873, zoom
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