![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His art was not overtly political, but in the context of the time, he was not ignored as he expressed ideas of equality by heroicizing ordinary individuals, painting them at great scale and refusing to hide their imperfections. This was characteristic of his left-wing commitments. During the Paris Commune of 1871, Courbet briefly abandoned painting for a role in government.He rejected Classical or Romantic treatments and instead took humble scenes of country life - subjects usually considered the stuff of minor genre painting - and made them material for great history painting. But in his own realm of art, he was most inspired by his distaste for strictures of the French Academy. Courbet's Realism can be understood as part of the wider inquiry into the physical world that occupied science in the 19 th century. ![]()
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