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- 1819-1877. French artist, a portrait, genre,
- and landscape painter. Reacting against
- academic trends, both Classicist and
- Romantic, he sought to establish a new
- realism based on contemporary life. His
- Burial at Ornans 1850 (Louvre, Paris),
- showing ordinary working people gathered
- round a village grave, shocked the public and
- the critics with its `vulgarity'. His spirit
- of realism was to be continued by Manet. In
- 1871 Courbet was active in the Paris Commune
- and was later imprisoned for six months for
- his part in it.
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