1. MODERNISM IN ART: AN INTRODUCTION Flirting with controversy: Courbet and taboo in the 19thcentury djackso1@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

2. Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) Courbet lived through one of the most violent crises of French history: the Commune, in which he participated actively.

3. RealismPhotographEveryday ImagesNot glamorousNot emotional/feelingReal life situations

5. Contextualise Courbet’s art within the social history of the period

6. Explore his political orientation and involvement

7. Address the critical reaction to his work

9. Modernist artists seek to capture the images and sensibilities of their age while also subjecting the premises of art itself to critical examination.

10. The two major modernist art movements of the later nineteenth century are Realism and Impressionism.

12. The Salon was the official art exhibition of the French Academy of Fine Arts (Academie des Beaux-Arts) in Paris

14. Redefining Reality: Realists focused attention on the experiences and sights of everyday contemporary life

17. Emergence of History as a Scientific Discipline

19. Daumier, The Uprising (1860)

20. Daumier, The Fugitives(c. 1849-50)

21. Daumier, Third Class Carriage (1862)

22. Manet, The Street Singer (1863)) Manet, Spanish Singer (1860-62))

23. Manet, The Old Musician,1862 Manet, The Fifer,1866

24. Manet, The Absinthe Drinker, 1858 Manet, The Spanish Ballet, 1862

25. Degas, The Glass of Absinthe (1876)

26. Degas, Race horses, 1866-68

27. Daumier, Clown Playing a Drumc. 1865-67 Daumier Daumier, The Two Lawyers (c. 1862-64 )

28. Vendôme Column A symbol of Napoleon III's power Courbet was considered as an accomplice in the debunking of the Vendôme Column- a symbol of Napoleon III's power - he was imprisoned and tried by the war council.

29. Manet, Portrait of Zola (1867-8)

30. Millet, The Gleaners (1857)

31. Charles Baudelaire

32. Gustave Courbet. The Stone Breakers. 1849 (destroyed during World War II)

34. Gustave Courbet The Peasants of Flagey Returning from the Fair, 1850-55

36. The Academy was essentially the art establishment, based in various locations across France (with similar systems in other European countries)

37. It was set up in France in the mid 17th century and was essentially a system of state controlled art education and patronage

38. The Academy adhered to strict principles about what constituted good or bad in painting – which is where the hierarchy of genres came from, with history painting at the top and genre and still life at the bottom. It also promoted the idea that the finest works of art were those of the past

40. David, The Death of Marat (1793)

41. Lampooning the Powers That Be In his lithograph, Rue Transnonain, Honoré (1834) Daumier depicts in a factual manner an atrocity that took place in a workers' housing block on a street in Paris.

42. David, Jacques-Louis The Death of Socrates 1787

43. Manet, The Suicide, late 1870s

45. Alexandre Cabanel,Birth of Venus (1863)

46. Created scandal not only because the subject matter but also by the unconventional way it was painted. The Origin of the World L'Origine du monde(1866)

48. Ingres, The Bather (1808) Courbet, The Bathers (1853)

51. Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice(1650-1)

52. Claude Lorrain, Coast Scene with the Rape of Europa1667

53. GustaveCourbet,Deer in the Forest (1868)

54. Courbet Gustave, The Oak at Flagey (1864)

55. Gustave Courbet The Artist's Studio (L'Atelier du peintre): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life (1855)

56. Right side=positive influence The “exploited” The Naked truth Napoleon III as a tyrant LARGE signature Baudelaire Landscape is Ornans

57. Courbet, Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man) (1844-1845)

58. Discussion Courbet painted non-traditional subjects in a broad manner contrary to the accepted academic style. Why was Courbet painting pictures that he knew would upset people?

60. Doesschate Chu, Petra ten. (1977) Courbet in Perspective. Prentice Hall, UK

61. Fried, Michael.(1990) Courbet’s realism. U Chicago P

62. Faunce, Sarah. (1988) Courbet reconsidered. Brooklyn museum, USA

63. Morton, Mary G. (2006) Courbet and the modern landscape. Paul Getty Museum

64. Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate. (2007) The most arrogant man in France: Gustave Courbet and the nineteenth-century media culture. Princeton University Press, Oxford

65. Rubin, James Henry. (1980) Realism and social vision in Courbet & Proudhon. Princeton University Press