Gustave Courbet was a French artist known to be the leader and innovator of the Realist Movement of the 19th Century. His art rebelled against the Romantic and Neo-Classical Eras during his time. His passion was in illustrating the truth and erasing “social contradictions and imbalances” (www.gustavecourbet.org). Some notable paintings by the artist are “A Burial at Ornans” (1850) where he depicts his great-uncle’s funeral in his native Ornans portraying the ugliness in the situation beginning the movement of Realism. Courbet mentioned that “ A Burial at Ornans was in reality the burial of Romanticism”, underlining his complete involvement in the innovation of the Realist Movement. Another notable painting is “The Artist’s Studio” (1855)
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Withdrawing from tradition, all pieces have a certain significance or individuality and originality to their movement. For example, in Courbet’s “Le désespéré”, the artist demonstrates different aspects of his personality and emotion which seems to involve frustration, determination, and despair. Courbet’s self-portrait is one of the most famous of the Romantic; however, he fades from tradition as the portrait demonstrates an additional aspect of his personality slowly creating what would be the Realist Movement only a decade later. In “Dystopia 3” by Aziz and Cucher, the artists modify a young girl’s face to show the lack of face-to-face interaction leading to lack of individuality in today’s society. Especially, with the presence of the flower crown, she is portrayed as innocent and young, but today’s social environment has already overtaken her disallowing her right to individuality. They used Photoshop which increasingly became popular to artists to be able to modify what they want how they want. And Finally in Gordon’s “Monster Reborn”, the thought of contradicting and possibly coexisting personalities exist within the human body. His experimental techniques transforming into installations and film projections distort the spectator’s perspective on what one’s personality really is and what one can truly feel or imagine. In all three art pieces, it is up to the spectator to interpret the artist’s view on individuality and morale. Throughout the portraits, identity is spoken about in different
Withdrawing from tradition, all pieces have a certain significance or individuality and originality to their movement. For example, in Courbet’s “Le désespéré”, the artist demonstrates different aspects of his personality and emotion which seems to involve frustration, determination, and despair. Courbet’s self-portrait is one of the most famous of the Romantic; however, he fades from tradition as the portrait demonstrates an additional aspect of his personality slowly creating what would be the Realist Movement only a decade later. In “Dystopia 3” by Aziz and Cucher, the artists modify a young girl’s face to show the lack of face-to-face interaction leading to lack of individuality in today’s society. Especially, with the presence of the flower crown, she is portrayed as innocent and young, but today’s social environment has already overtaken her disallowing her right to individuality. They used Photoshop which increasingly became popular to artists to be able to modify what they want how they want. And Finally in Gordon’s “Monster Reborn”, the thought of contradicting and possibly coexisting personalities exist within the human body. His experimental techniques transforming into installations and film projections distort the spectator’s perspective on what one’s personality really is and what one can truly feel or imagine. In all three art pieces, it is up to the spectator to interpret the artist’s view on individuality and morale. Throughout the portraits, identity is spoken about in different