Courbet and Manet built their own pavilions in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

Courbet, a publicity hound, loved the controversy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A MEETING OF THE MINDS] Reference

It was a sport in which Courbet had always reveled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Born Rebel Artist] Reference

Above: Details from paintings by Courbet and Matisse.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

Courbet at the end of his life was a fish out of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

Put another way, Courbet painted the fish as a form of apology.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

In other words Courbet survived while the Barbizonians perished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

Courbet gained fame with a series of large "manifesto" paintings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Born Rebel Artist] Reference

Courbet, a heroic, brash man relished confrontation and engagement.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

Courbet didn't shy away from death: he respected and confronted it.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

His landscapes are somewhat akin to those of Michel and of Courbet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

Many very good painters, like my master, Courbet, have given it up. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

Courbet prided himself in resisting the containment of culture in any form.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

Jan. 11 -- Report from Vienna that French dreadnought Courbet has been sunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

Courbet soundly rejected idealization and defined painting as the art of seeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Realism Isn't All Eye Candy] Reference

When "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!" was shown in Paris in 1855, it was met with ridicule.    From Wordnik.com.  [A MEETING OF THE MINDS] Reference

Period photos of nudes demonstrated how much Courbet and his patron were men of their time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mesmerizing Museums] Reference

Men like Pissarro and Sisley were not forgetting Courbet and his admirable knowledge of reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

Courbet was a fine artist, and so was Ryder, and both had the advantage of exceptional imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

Courbet flirted with him by post, perhaps hoping to be mentioned in a review; there was no response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Born Rebel Artist] Reference

An example of this is the painter Courbet who conveys the essence liquidity saturating the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference

On wall D is the "Study of Jo," an uncharacteristic early work, which shows the influence of Courbet.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference

Courbet and Matisse were very different men; one a tragic Loue river trout, the other an elegant goldfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

His realism will never reach the height even of the sea-pieces of Courbet, and I shall include Ryder as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

The Courbet exhibition on view at the Grand Palais in Paris came as close to being definitive as seems possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Born Rebel Artist] Reference

On wall A is a painting by Courbet, interesting in the light of that artist's influence on Whistler's early work.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference

To term Freud's art "realism" is to associate it with the aesthetic of Courbet, and that in many ways makes sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way to All Flesh] Reference

Taken together these portraits tell the story of one of the world's great love affairs, that of Courbet with himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Born Rebel Artist] Reference

(Bruyas had invited Courbet to see the art he'd gathered; the two became close and Bruyas commissioned this painting.).    From Wordnik.com.  [A MEETING OF THE MINDS] Reference

The interior tones of gray and black, colors Courbet would have appreciated, set off the sharp orange of the goldfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

For his part, Courbet wrote to Bruyas in one of his last letters, "I dread only one thing, ending up like Don Quixote ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [A MEETING OF THE MINDS] Reference

Delacroix, Courbet, and without doubt, the mastery of Ingres, and it is indicative too that he felt the frank force of Manet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

Courbet, who had grown up in Ornans near the Swiss border always saw himself as a man of the country, strongly aware of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

If Matisse was a goldfish, Courbet was a trout: a wild, rugged river fish, brushing against rocks, swimming against the current.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference

It would have pleased Courbet to be presiding over hundreds of thousands Parisians as they roamed through the streets of the capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Born Rebel Artist] Reference

Courbet famously described himself as "the most arrogant man in France"; the retrospective convinced us that his arrogance was justified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mesmerizing Museums] Reference

Le Gray's seascapes from paper negatives have been extolled in countless exhibitions, including currently in the Courbet show at the Met.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art in Early Photography] Reference

Nevertheless, he continued to buy the occasional Courbet through intermediaries and, toward the end, said, "I love Gustave like a brother.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A MEETING OF THE MINDS] Reference