Gustave Courbet

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter born on the 10th of June 1819 and died on the 31st of December 1877. Courbet was one of the artist who led the Realism art movement during the 19th century. Courbet rejected Romanticism, and wanted to paint real pople, and things that he could see infront of him. He started off the movement of Realism, which many artist soon followed after him. His work is very gloomy, only using a dark colour pallet in his work. His work portrays less nature, and focuses more on people in a variation of locations.