27th July 2009
Gustave Courbet is best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes and seascapes. He was from a time when the Romantics were in their prime like William Bouguereau who were painting in a highly finished style depicting beautiful mythological scenes. Courbet, however, was not a Romantic. Courbet, being a rebel at heart, portrayed reality in his paintings which brought him much criticism from the Romantics.
In the 1860's Courbet was more interested in the erotic elements of art than the political ones that were prevalent in his work. His paintings became increasingly daring, each painting slightly more extreme than its predecessor, culminating in the famous (and most beautiful) "L'Origine du Monde" ("The Origin of the World") which depicts the feminine genitalia in all its glory. As always in the case of erotic works, in spite of causing a furore and being banned from public display, this never did anything to diminish their great popularity...privately.
The Courbet section of ErotiCart has already been established, though today we are adding two new paintings; "Woman with Parrot (2)" and "Baccante"
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