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Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man or Desperation) is an oil-on-canvas self-portrait by Gustave Courbet, produced from 1843 to 1845, during his stay in Paris.It depicts Courbet as a young man staring in front of him with wide eyes, grasping his hair in desperation.
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: / ˈ k ʊər b eɪ / KOOR-bay; [1] US: / k ʊər ˈ b eɪ / koor-BAY; [2] French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) [3] was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting.
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The Meeting or "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet" (French: La rencontre, ou "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") is an oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Courbet, made in 1854. It depicts the artist on his way to Montpellier meeting his patron Alfred Bruyas , his servant Calas, and his dog Breton.
Courbet first exhibited the work at the Paris Salon in April 1852 entitled The Village Maids give alms to a cowherd in a valley near Ornans.It was immediately bought by the duc de Morny despite a public and press polemic against the work – for example, the art critic Théophile Gautier expressesd reservations and felt the canvas was under-finished, [4] whilst Gustave Planche, Eugène Loudun ...
Visual art was considered one of the most important aspects of anarchist activity from the birth of anarchism, with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon writing on his friend and contemporary Gustave Courbet in the essay "Du Principe de l'art", published 1865, that "The task of art is to warn us, to praise us, to teach us, to make us blush by confronting us ...
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In the center, Courbet works on a landscape, while turned away from a nude model who is a symbol of Academic art. On the right are friends and associates of Courbet, mainly elite Parisian society figures, including Charles Baudelaire, Champfleury, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Courbet's most prominent patron, Alfred Bruyas. [2]