Category: Theories of Art – Gustave Courbet

ICONOLOGY

“Venus at a Mirror” We are but spectators of art, valuing and revaluing art and its composition, form, colour and space that it enfolds. With the given title, we are drawn into the ethereal dichotomy, taxonomy or could it be trichotomy between antiquity, social media and diversity (the perception of the Venus Figure vis-à-vis as…

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OUDTSHOORN

FEATHER PALACES TO ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECTURE OF OUDTSHOORN

A Burial of Romanticism – Gustave Courbet

Courbet and Schiller:  A Burial of Romanticism In this paper I am going to discuss the revolutionary French painter of the 19th century, Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet through the notion of aesthetic and political freedom, as restated by the German philosopher Friedrich von Schiller in his Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Mankind (1793-4).  Due…

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