Gustave Courbet Cross Stitch Kits & Patterns ⁽²⁾

Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was the original artistic rebel — the man who looked at the grand traditions of French Academic painting, with its mythological subjects, its idealised figures, and its carefully maintained hierarchies of what counted as serious art, and decided that ordinary people, ordinary landscapes, and ordinary life were not just worthy subjects for painting but the only subjects that really mattered. He called his approach Realism, founded it essentially by himself, and promoted it with the kind of cheerful, combative self-confidence that made him either enormously entertaining or completely exhausting depending on how much time you spent in his company.

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