Cour·bet

(ko͞or-bā′, -bĕ′), Gustave 1819-1877.

French painter known for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes. His works include Burial at Ornans (1850) and The Artist's Studio (1855).

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Courbet

(French kurbɛ)

(Biography) Gustave (ɡystav). 1819–77, French painter, a leader of the realist movement; noted for his depiction of contemporary life

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Cour•bet

(kʊərˈbeɪ)

n.

Gustave, 1819–77, French painter.

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Major museum exhibitions of Courbet are rare in the US (the last one was at the Brooklyn Museum almost twenty years ago).

Three times a year Artforum looks ahead to the coming season. The following survey previews fifty shows opening around the world between January and April

In Selbstportrat mit fremdem Kopf (Self-Portrait with Someone Else's Head), 2004, he seems to echo the portraiture of Manet and Courbet, yet the title signals his occupation of a realm made suddenly vulnerable.

Magnus von Plessen: Art Institute of Chicago

Employing aspects of allegory, documentation, and performance informed by a lineage extending from Courbet to Nauman, Wallace likewise questions the mythology of the studio yet reaffirms its validity as a space for thinking, writing, and making.

Ian Wallace: Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute

Henning positions himself as an heir to all those whose work has displayed a flair for the lush and the strange, from the painters of the Baroque to Courbet, Manet, the post-Impressionists, Matisse, and more recently, the likes of Sigmar Polke, Eric Fischl, and David Salle.

Anton Henning: Christopher Grimes Gallery

Current as they are, Dodge's works radiate a nineteenth-century mentality expressed by the likes of Baudelaire and Courbet: a drive to describe the spirit and beauty of one's age, even in the midst of its ugliness.

Tomory Dodge: ACME

Mollino's props were as standard as those of any painter or studio photographer; one is inevitably reminded of the long and intimate relationship between pornographic fantasy and art, from Delacroix's harem paintings and Courbet's L'Origine to Picasso's Demoiselles and Picabia's kitsch pinups.

Carlo Mollino: Salon 94

About one hundred paintings and works on paper by Manet as well as his forerunners (Courbet) and successors (Whistler) complete the picture.

Manet and the Sea

Surface irregularities, in particular the crusty faces carved out with a palette knife, convey horror-movie disfigurement no less than art-historical references, e.g., Courbet.

John Currin