ARROGANT REALISM: Gustav Courbet

delivered by Alan Read

GUSTAVE COURBET (1819-1877): ARROGANT REALISM

‘I am the proudest and most arrogant man in France’ wrote Courbet. He used those qualities to defy convention and challenge academic conventions and Alan will show how this resulted in a movement which radically altered the course of European art in the nineteenth century, including paintings which have not lost their power to shock.

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