The Reality In The Works Of Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet(1819-1877)was an important French realist painter in the nineteenth century.This paper focuses on Gustave Courbet’s "The Stone Breaker" of 1849 as the object of study,taking the artist’s artistic creation between 1848 and 1856 as the entry point to explore the "reality" in Courbet’s painting.This paper will analyze the inevitable influence of the artist’s previous artistic study experience,political life and ideological transformation on the work "The Stone Breaker" from a vertical dimension,focusing on the artist’s journey to find his own creative direction.This paper will also explore how the time,society,politics,culture and art of the artist’s life had an important influence on "realism" through the horizontal dimension.It will also focus on the creation process of the painting "The Stone Breaker",analyze in depth the techniques and the language of oil painting shown in "The Stone Breaker",and gain a deeper understanding of Courbet’s artistic refinement of "reality".Finally,the extensive influence of Courbet’s "realism" on painting,photography,and film will be analyzed,as well as the profound influence on Chinese historical thematic painting and Chinese painting in the process of development.