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Photography's painter.(Art)
These days, the boundaries between forms of visual art are permeable. Artists produce work that resists being relegated to strict categories, cheerfully combining paint, photo-based imagery, computer manipulations, three-dimensional construction, found objects, video projections, and a host of processes I probably can't even guess at, without concern for how the result might be classified. Once, however, distinctions between mediums were extremely important, for all sorts of reasons ranging from the aesthetic to the sociological. The paragone--the comparison of the worth of painting and drawing--had been a serious topic of discussion from classical times to the eighteenth ...
- Gustave Courbet: France's fearless provocateur: the radical and rebellious...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) May 1, 2008 700+ words
...mid 19th-century France, Gustave Courbet (1819-77) constantly was...S., are on display in "Gustave Courbet." The exhibition explores...paintings, nudes, and Courbet and photography. It includes several of Courbet...
- Courbet.(Report from Europe)(Gustave Courbet )
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Kramer, Miriam October 1, 2007 700+ words
Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, in eastern France, and arrived in Paris...in Switzerland, where he died in 1877. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gustave Courbet, the first major retrospective devoted to the artist in Paris in...
- Courbet. (Gustave Courbet) (Art) (column)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Danto, Arthur Coleman January 23, 1989 700+ words
The glens and glades of Gustave Courbet are afflicted with an aggravated nymphlessness. His rocks arid rills are goddess-free. No angels hover by when honest folk...
- Inner states: Paul Galvez on Gustave Courbet.(Cover story)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Galvez, Paul May 1, 2008 700+ words
...a little less than a century after the Paris Commune, it might have been appropriate to introduce these reflections on Gustave Courbet by rehearsing his involvement with that earlier insurrection, which led to his ruin. But if we approach his work with...
- The most arrogant artist in France: the impressive retrospective that has just...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Zutter, Jorg March 1, 2008 700+ words
The exhibition devoted to Gustave Courbet that opened in New York last month after its showing at the Grand Palais in Paris takes place 130 years after the artist's death...
- Letters of Gustave Courbet.
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Lethbridge, Robert March 1, 1994 700+ words
Not unlike his successive self-portraits, our view of Courbet seems continuously subject to correction. We may now be accustomed to the idea that behind the peasant buffoon there lay a deeply serious artist. It still comes as something of a surprise to be afforded an insight into his writing as
- Courbet's lost laundresses. (an analysis of paintings by Gustave Courbet)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Herbert, Robert L. February 1, 1995 700+ words
Minuscule images of laundresses at work can be seen in the works discussed here--two Courbet paintings, a Lartigue photograph and a Boldini oil--all depicting the Normandy fishing village of Etretat. For the author, these usually overlooked figures document the region's traditional activities but
- How science and technology changed art.(What Has Made the Year 2000 - Science,...
- Magazine article from: History Today Wolter-Abele, Andrea November 1, 1996 700+ words
...Henceforth creative art and photography were to be in constant tension...Charles Baudelaire, despised photography as being a product of industry...other hand, the painter, Gustave Courbet, recognised photography as a useful aid in depicting...
Source: HighBeam Research, Photography's painter.(Art)