To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim. - Gustave Courbet
Courbet was part of a movement called "the Realists". This could seemed odd to all of us living in this time of say abstract art but his take on realist painting was more a social one. He painted what he saw, he knew, tenets I strive to do. He painted the so-called ordinary as he would any subject without the sentimentality that such genre paintings usually possess.
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