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	WebMuseum: Courbet, Gustave
		Gustave Courbet was born on June 10, 1819, to a prosperous farming family in Ornans, France.
		Courbet visited Germany in 1856, where he was welcomed by the artistic community.
		Politically a socialist, Courbet took part in some revolutionary activities for which he was imprisoned for six months in 1871.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/courbet (469 words)

	WetCanvas: Virtual Museum: Individual Artists: Gustave Courbet
		Jean Desire Gustave Courbet was born on 10 June 1819 in Ornans, a small town in the Jura region of eastern France.
		Courbet had embarked on this huge painting in the summer of 1849, with virtually everyone in the district clamoring to be included.
		Courbet was surprisingly philosophical about this, writing to a friend that his art was keeping him busy and that in any case a married man was a reactionary.
	www.wetcanvas.com /Museum/Artists/c/Gustave_Courbet/index.html (1736 words)

	Movement for Anarchy - Art & Artists - Gustave Courbet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Courbet's interest in portraying things as they really appear, together with his non-academic orientation, place him in the front rank of the quest for realism that was the premise for much of the artistic activity during the second half of the nineteenth century.
		Courbet had embarked on this huge painting in the summer of 1849, with virtually everyone in the district clamoring to be included.
		Courbet was surprisingly philosophical about this, writing to a friend that his art was keeping him busy and that in any case a married man was a reactionary.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/ArchiveMirror/courbet_gustave.html (1851 words)

	Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Courbet's painting of the funeral of his grand uncle became the first masterpiece in the Realist style.
		Courbet associated his ideas of realism in art with Socialism, and having gained an audience he promoted democratic and Socialist ideas by writing politically motivated essays and dissertations.
		Courbet was allowed to pay in yearly instalments of 10.000 francs for the next 33 years, until his 91st birthday.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gustave_Courbet (1087 words)

	Gustave Courbet
		Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 - December 31, 1877), French painter, was born at Ornans[?] (Doubs).
		Though Courbet's realistic work is not devoid of importance, it is as a landscape and sea painter that he will be most honoured by posterity.
		When Courbet had made a name as an artist he grew ambitious of other glory; he tried to promote democratic and social science, and under the Empire he wrote essays and dissertations.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Gustave_Courbet.html (351 words)

	Gustave Courbet - MSN Encarta
		Courbet, a farmer's son, was born June 10, 1819, in Ornans.
		By then Courbet's distinctive painting style was fully developed, marked by technical mastery, a bold and limited palette, compositional simplicity, strong and even harshly modeled figures (as in his nudes), and heavy impasto—thick layers of paint—often applied with a palette knife (particularly evident in his landscape and marine paintings).
		As radical in politics as he was in painting, Courbet was placed in charge of all art museums under the revolutionary 1871 Commune of Paris and saved the city's collections from looting mobs.
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	Gustave Courbet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gustave Courbet is generally recognized as the leader of the French Realist movement.
		Gustave Courbet was born into a wealthy bourgeoisie family in 1819.
		Courbet painted without any apparent sentiment; instead, he let the image of the two men, one too young for hard labor and the other too old, express the feelings of hardship and exhaustion that he was trying to portray.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/boheme/courbet.htm (359 words)

	Free Essay Gustave Courbet
		Gustave Courbet was a man who thought of himself as a defining element in the life of his times.
		Gustave Courbet was born on June 10, 1819 in Ornans, France and died on December 31, 1877.
		Gustave’s use of dark colors to depict the people around himself in The Artist’s Studio is due to his desire to express the artist’s new role in society.
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	Wine Road Gustave Courbet - December 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Courbet was born in the village of Ornans, which lies in the Jura northeast of Arbois.
		Courbet kept going back to his family and Ornans until the revolution of 1870 which erupted after the Germans had whipped the French and driven Napoleon III into exile.
		Courbet, an anarchist-socialist, participated in the bloody uprising and was blamed by the authorities for pulling down the column of the Vendôme--the one in front of the Ritz Hotel.
	www.winejoe.com /wineroad/GCourbet.htm (981 words)

	Gustave Courbet - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GUSTAVE COURBET (1819-1877), French painter, was born at Ornans (Doubs) on the loth of June 1819.
		Though Courbet's realistic work is not devoid of importance, it is as a landscape and sea painter that he will be most honoured by posterity.
		When Courbet had made a name as an artist he grew ambitious of other glory; he tried to promote democratic and social science, and under the Empire he wrote essays and dissertations.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gustave_Courbet (382 words)

	The Unflaggingly Honest Gustave Courbet [Biography]
		Gustave Courbet, a self-declared Realist, rejected the inherent sentimentality of the earlier Romantics.
		Courbet's interest in portraying things as they really appear, together with his non-academic orientation, place him in the front rank of the quest for realism that was the premise for much of the artistic activity during the second half of the nineteenth century.
		Courbet himself later asserted that from 1848 on, he concentrated on "realistic" subjects.
	www.humanitiesweb.org /human.php?s=g&p=c&a=b&ID=12 (391 words)

	Courbet, Gustave. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		An avowed realist, Courbet was always at odds with vested authority, aesthetic or political.
		Under the Commune, Courbet was elected to the chamber and in consequence was later held responsible, fined, and imprisoned for the destruction of the Vendôme column.
		Courbet is represented in galleries throughout France and the United States.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Courbet.html (344 words)

	Gustave Courbet and Realism - Frontline 5
		Gustave Courbet was born in Ornans in 1819, the son of a wealthy bourgeois farmer of peasant origin.
		Courbet also painted his portrait after his death in 1865, as Proudhon would not sit for him whilst he was alive.
		Courbet's influence is widespread, breaking the mould of established convention in many ways, allowing others to follow in his footsteps, most notably the Impressionists and in particular Manet who, rather than Courbet is considered the father of Impressionism.
	www.redflag.org.uk /frontline/five/05courbet.html (1779 words)

	Free Essay Gustave Courbet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gustave Courbet was a man who thought of himself as a defining element in the life of his times.
		Gustave Courbet was born on June 10, 1819 in Ornans, France and died on December 31, 1877.
		Gustave’s use of dark colors to depict the people around himself in The Artist’s Studio is due to his desire to express the artist’s new role in society.
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	Gustave Courbet - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gustave Courbet was born in in 1819 in Ornans, a farming town in eastern France, into a closeknit family of the rural middle class.
		Courbet gave himself truculent oppositional airs, but thereafter avoided subjects that could be seen as hostile to the regime.
		This moved Courbet to declare that he would not have his work judged by any jury: rather than making the slightest sacrifice of his freedom, he would withdraw from the official exhibition and show his works in a rival exhibition of his own.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?6550 (2214 words)

	Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born on June 10, 1819 to an Ornans farmer, Gustave Courbet is one of the founders of French Realism.
		After the commune fell, Courbet was briefly imprisoned for destruction of property and fled to Switzerland in 1873 where he died in 1877.
		Courbet's innovation is more in his subjects than in technique.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0118063/time/courbet.htm (267 words)

	Gustave Courbet
		The approach to painting is radical; but - in the sense that Courbet is trying to find new ways to attain the heights he recognizes in Rembrandt and Chardin - conservative, too.
		Courbet's grasp of composition is more episodic and eccentric; his finest paintings have an effect of strangeness and surprise that's probably irreconcilable with the idea of the wall-sized masterpiece.
		Courbet responds as completely to the frozen loneliness of an animal foraging in winter - in The Snowy Landscape with Boar (1866-67) - as he does to the little fishing boats at the Cliffs of Etretat, just after a storm.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/C/courbet.html (1128 words)

	Gustave Courbet - Artist Biographies
		Courbet, a handsome young man, went to Paris in 1840 to study art, taking almost no instruction but working in the Louvre and from models.
		Courbet's own life was fairly heroic: as an artist, he was both greatly admired and greatly detested.
		Courbet responded in his paintings to the world in which he was brought up: people, animals both wild and tame, fruits and flowers, landscapes, and seascapes.
	www.posters-art.us /biography/Gustave_Courbet.html (351 words)

	Gustave Courbet - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Courbet, (Jean Désiré) Gustave (1819-1877), influential and prolific French painter, who, with his compatriots Honoré Daumier and...
		To record the manners, ideas, and aspect of the age as I myself saw them—to be a man as well as a painter—in short to create a living art—that is...
		Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880), French writer, known for his novels Madame Bovary (1857; translated 1886) and L’éducation sentimentale (1869;...
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	The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
		Gustave Courbet was born in Ornans in the Franche-Comté, the son of a comfortable family that was half peasant, half bourgeois, and very proud of its revolutionary ancestry.
		Courbet's own life was fairly heroic: as an artist, he was both greatly admired and greatly detested.
		Courbet responded in his paintings to the world in which he was brought up: people, animals both wild and tame, fruits and flowers, landscapes, and seascapes.
	www.vangoghgallery.com /artistbios/Gustave_Courbet.html (367 words)

	Gustave Courbet - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Courbet, the Commune, and the meanings of still life in 1871.
		A newly discovered Courbet, a Rothschild writing desk and even ancient Mexican sculpture--the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris is sure to have something for everybody.
		Gustave Caillebotte - painter of a new Paris.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Courbet.html (693 words)

	Gustave Courbet Summary
		Jean Desiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter whose powerful pictures of peasants and scenes of everyday life established him as the leading figure of the realist movement of the mid-19th century.
		Gustave Courbet was born at Ornans on June 10, 1819.
		Courbet was allowed to pay in yearly instalments of 10.000 francs for the next 33 years, untill his 91st birthday.
	www.bookrags.com /Gustave_Courbet (2374 words)

	Gustave Courbet
		Jean Desire Gustave Courbet was born on June 10, 1819, in Ornans, France, the son of a well-to-do landowner.
		Courbet was also known for being politically active and outspoken, and in 1870, when war was declared, he turned down the Legion of Honor by the new minister, Emile Ollivier.
		Despite appeals, the charges held, and Courbet was charged for the cost of the destruction, and his assets were seized.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/artists_retired/13320 (464 words)

	Gustave Courbet - Encyclopedia.com
		Courbet, Gustave (1819–77) French painter, the leading exponent of realism.
		Largely self-taught, Courbet rejected traditional subject matter and instead painted peasant groups and scenes from life in Paris.
		Courbet's rejection of both Romantic and Classical ideals prepared the way for Impressionism.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-CourbetGustave.html (460 words)

	EUROPEAN PAINTINGS.COM - GUSTAVE COURBET: Landscape in the Jura
		Their juxtaposition demonstrated clearly that they were originally part of the same canvas that had been cut in half vertically; the right side remaining intact, while the left was once again cut, this time horizontally.
		We know that Courbet not infrequently altered his canvases, removing motifs and substituting others, and changing its size after the painting was completed.
		In the later fifties and sixties Courbet’s landscapes had became more solitary and meditative, though frequently involved with the life of wild game and of the hunt as an integral part of rural existence and survival.
	www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/frlscape/courbjur.htm (1097 words)

	Culture Shock: Flashpoints: Visual Arts: Gustave Courbet's A Burial at Ornans
		Painter Gustave Courbet is relatively unknown in 1851 when the government-sponsored art exhibition, the Paris Salon, presents his 20-foot-long masterwork, A Burial at Ornans.
		With the worker uprisings of 1848 a recent memory, Courbet's use of the common people as a grand subject is deemed a radical act -- "the engine of revolution," as one critic says.
		Furthermore, in his push towards a realistic style, Courbet has intentionally painted his fl-clad folk in a manner that does not idealize their suffering.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/courbet.html (373 words)

	Artist Biography - Rehs Galleries, Inc.
		Courbet was a frequenter of the Brasserie Andler, where the main players in the Realist circle congregated including: Champfleury, Max Buchon (whom Courbet met at Seminary in Ornans), Charles Baudelaire, and painters such as Honoré Daumier and Alexandre Décamps.
		Courbet found the necessary funds, but the show was a failure; only a handful of visitors wandered in, already tired by the massive amount of pictures shown at the Exposition.
		Courbet managed to escape by keeping a low profile; his personality was not one to flee from controve rsy or danger, even if it meant going to prison.
	www.rehsgalleries.com /biography.html?key=247 (2663 words)

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