Gustave Courbet, 1864 - Grotto of Sarrazine near Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne - fine art print

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To create a living art, that is my aim. --Gustave Courbet

Through a dynamic composition and radical painting technique, Gustave Courbet emphasized the specific qualities of this primordial cave in his native region of the Jura Mountains in eastern France. Earthy hues and textures swirl around a tunnel-like entrance, drawing attention to the clear blue stream running through it. Two large boulders stand before the vortex, several feet from a wall hugged by delicate scaffolding. To mimic the cavern's craggy and colorful surfaces, Courbet used palette knives to apply and scrape off paint and brushes to mix drying paint in with wet.

Like many tourists and scientists of his day, Courbet was probably drawn to the grotto for its geological interest. In the mid-1860s, he frequently painted caves as a means to explore composition and technique freely, and to demonstrate his strong belief that artistic subjects should be rooted in one's lived experience. He saw the basis of Realism as "the denial of the ideal," the rejection of established classical subjects and a refined style. He chose instead, to paint only what he could see.

This more than 150 year-old painting was painted by the male artist Gustave Courbet. Furthermore, this piece of art is in the the digital collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum. The modern art artwork, which is in the public domain is being included - courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.Creditline of the artwork: . What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which means that the length is 20% longer than the width. Gustave Courbet was a male painter, sculptor, communard, whose art style was mainly Realism. The painter lived for a total of 58 years - born in the year 1819 in Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and died in the year 1877 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland.

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