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Art Gustave Courbet

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Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the groundswell of modernism. The Met presents the first survey of the iconoclastic painter in nearly 30 years, charting Courbet's development through 130 works,  alongside the 19th-century landscape photographs and nudes that influenced him. It's hard to imagine now, but Courbet caused quite a scandal in Parisian art circles with his paintings of everyday people, brooding landscapes, and frankly sexual nudes rendered in roughly applied layers of paint.

– H.G. Masters

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