Astrology and Modern Art Oct 13, 2008
Artists Joseph Stella (June 13, 1877) and Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819) shared Gemini s gift for being clever chameleons. Italian-born Stella opted for a fresh start in America, and he liked to change styles to suit his own creative desires and confuse art critics. (Suite101.com)
'Like Breath on Glass' scratches surface on Whistler Jun 29, 2008
All this was in stark contrast to the thickly applied palette knife textures of Gustave Courbet (whose realism Whistler began his career trying to emulate) and to the Impressionists, who applied pure colors in broken dabs. Whistler is the show's hero, and quite rightly: He was one of those few artists who can genuinely be said to have changed the way we see - in particular, the way we think of urban fogs, misty riverside or seaside scenes, and all kinds of dreamily imprecise nighttime vistas. (Boston Globe)
Francisco Oller y Cestero, La Batalla de Trevino to be on Public View for the First Time Ever May 26, 2008
He maintained close friendships with the latter two, while often referring to himself as a disciple of douard Manet and Gustave Courbet, with whom he shared a number of formal and aesthetic affinities. The most comprehensive retrospective of Ollers work was organized in 1984 by the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico and later traveled to El Museo del Barrio in New York City. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Larger than life May 13, 2008
Designed by Henri Deglane and built for the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1890, the Grand Palais nowadays plays host to blockbuster exhibitions such as last year's Gustave Courbet show, to catwalk fashion shows and to Fiac, the Paris art fair. Serra follows German artist Anselm Keifer in an annual series of commissions called Monumenta. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Takes on the landscape of 'burbs, epic Babylon Apr 20, 2008
Among the starry roster of painters are J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, Camille Corot, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul C zanne. Parkes Place, 011-61-2-6240-6501. (Boston Globe)
A slow, steady hand Apr 6, 2008
Watching "Dream of Light," the curator Brutvan thought of another realist who worked directly with his subjects, she says: the 19th-century French artist Gustave Courbet, who once declared: "Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.". L pez Garc a was not upset that he didn't finish the work. (Boston Globe)
Looted paintings go on show in Israel Mar 22, 2008
On another wall is a Gustave Courbet painting, Bathers, which was bought by a prominent Parisian art dealer in October 1940 on behalf of Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Reich's foreign minister. The catalogue admits the painting's provenance is untraced. (Guardian Unlimited)
Artist Frdric Bazille Mar 17, 2008
Bazille greatly admired other innovative French artists Gustave Courbet and , and Bazille s painting Young Woman with Peonies was a tribute to Manet s scandalously-received 1863 work Olympia. Manet was generally at odds with the art critics and patrons of the day, and his nude Olympia was declared coarse and vulgar. (Suite101.com)
Met's Courbet Report: Uncovering The Nudes Feb 26, 2008
February 26, 2008 -- BEFORE we had Madonna, France had Gustave Courbet - master chameleon and press manipulator extraordinaire ... Alas, "Gustave Courbet" - the retrospective of the man who paved the way to modern art, opening today at the Metropolitan Museum - is on display only until May 18. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
* [ ART JOURNAL ] Looted by Nazis and unclaimed, art goes on display in Jerusalem Feb 20, 2008
A woman views The Bathers, by French artist Gustave Courbet, in the exhibition entitled Looking for Owners displayed in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel ... "Our feeling about them is that our job is to hold them in custody, in a way, as a kind of memorial to their loss, and when the opportunity arises to return a work we are happy to do so,'' Snyder said. The exhibit of art the museum received from JRSO includes a 19th-century wedding portrait of the beautiful Charlotte de Rothschild, scion... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Monet, Turner a money churner Feb 1, 2008
On show will be works from some of the best-known and popular artists, including J.M.W.Turner, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Claude Monet. Australian artists will include Eugene Von Guerard, John Glover, Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
In the storm of the eye Oct 28, 2007
Stare at an artwork and you're likely to find it staring provocatively back in three Paris exhibitions: the paintings of Gustave Courbet, the photographs of Edward Steichen and the work of sculptor Alberto Giacometti ... Gustave Courbet Galeries National du Grand Palais, until 28 ... Two paintings dominate the big, sprawling Gustave Courbet retrospective in the Grand Palais. (Guardian Unlimited)
Courbets Nude Woman Reclining recovered Oct 13, 2007
For decades, art lovers believed Gustave Courbet's sensuous "Femme nue couchee" (Nude Woman Reclining, 1852) was lost, maybe even destroyed, a casualty of Red Army looting in Hungary during World War II. But unlike so many other tales of looted treasures, this one has a happy ending ... Gustave Courbets sensuous Nude Woman Reclining showing a tousle-haired, sleeping woman in white stockings and little else is on show starting Saturday at the Grand Palais ... Gustave... (MSNBC -- News)
On Impressionist seas through a prism of moods Aug 4, 2007
Gustave Courbet, who prided himself on his realistic naturalism, was just as prone to project his own mood, if a gloomy one, when painting the sea. No one ever equaled the forlornness of a sandy beach under an immense sky in which blackish wisps of clouds in the sky project matching black shadows on the strand while allowing pale sunshine to come through. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Sidewalk painting entertains downtown Jul 13, 2007
Corinne Grissinger (sophomore-fine arts) is currently working on a replica of "The Desperate Man" by Gustave Courbet. "You have to love being messy to enjoy this," she said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Eight works by Picasso among treasures of VAG exhibition Jun 10, 2007
If that's not enough, the exhibit also includes works anyone familiar with modern art would immediately recognize such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Amadeo Modigliani, Camille Pissaro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Henry Rousseau, and George Seurat. "It quite genuinely is a once in a lifetime opportunity, at least in Vancouver," Thom said in an interview. (Vancouver Sun)
