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Jan 28 2011
The Wave by Gustave Courbet, 1870
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
Courbet painted this when he was fifty years old and it is a wonderful example of his Realist style in which he roughly and intimate portrayed the harshness of experience and the scenes which he encountered in life. The painting has been interpreted as an escape from the terrors of the Industrial Revolution and an embracing of the power of Nature. Courbet created the work in a cottage on the Norman coast in which he lost himself in the creative process. Within a year, he was imprisoned for six months during the Paris Comune of 1871 and afterwards went into a self-imposed exile to Switzerland where he died on December 31, 1877. This masterpiece is in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
Jan 22 2011
Die Erscheinung by Gustave Moreau, 1875
French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Gustave Moreau’s "Die Erscheinung" or "L’apparition" of 1875. The title refers to the apparition of the head of John the Baptist to Salome, the daughter of Herodias, whose famous dance was the occasion for the execution of the Baptist by Herod Antipas. Moreau was one of the leading French Symbolists. He exhibited in the Salon of 1853 when he was twenty-seven years old and his first truly Symbolist painting was the Oedipus of 1864. He became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1891 and died on April 18, 1898. His workshop became the Musee national Gustave Moreau in 1905. This masterpiece is on display there.
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