Gustave Courbet's Reclining Nude

Gustave Courbet's "Reclining Nude" has five paintings by Gustave Courbet at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; they all found themselves in reclining nude (oil painting on canvas, Louis & Stern, 1868) collection , 63-81-20) is the most interesting. It represents a naked woman lying on the sand under the rolling canopy. The background is deep, but the sea is calm. The sky is dark like the last ray of the sun disappears on the horizon. There are several clouds in the sky, but they are dark, but they are not threatening.

The realism movement advocated by Gustave Courbet was the first to face the public museum in Paris in the mid-19th century. Courbet is an anarchist who believes that the art of his era has closed the reality of life. The French were governed by the repressive regime, and many citizens were involved in the suffering of poverty. Artists of those days did not draw such a scene, but focused on an idealized nudity picture and a wonderful depiction of nature. In his protest, Courbet held an exhibition of his work on the other side of the 1855 Paris World's Fair. And it brought the emergence of future artists who challenge the present situation.

Realist Art Movement (1840-1870) has extensive contact with French artist Gustav Courbet. He refuses to accept the ancient tradition of idealistic beauty and instead catches the real circumstances of daily life. Gustav Courbet once again made paintings a reality. Please look at this picture "Joe, the beautiful girl in Ireland" (around 1865 to 1866). You may feel sympathy with Joe. There is no fantasy or romantic about her. Her hair is not gorgeous, just as she works all day, her face looks tired.

In this work, Coolbe proposed a picture of a sleeping nude woman. She wears only white stockings, one of the shoes is on top and the other is loose on the other. She seems to have slept a purple scorpion in the evening. This is one of several women's nude paintings by Courbet depicting a real woman, including the reality of body hair. This and the origin of the world was owned by the collector of Hungary in 1862, but it was stolen from his bank's vault during the Second World War. After the war the baron traced the origin of the world, but the naked lady retreated and disappeared. It was a way for Soviet soldiers who swallowed him in Slovakia and presented it as a gift to the doctor. A few years later, the doctor died. In 2003, the family of doctors tried to sell it at the auction house and eventually collected the family 's $ 706,000 premium. Its value is estimated at about 15 million dollars.