Long before actor Peter Adam Rebadomia reenacted the artwork, or an Instagram comedian photoshopped Timothée Chalamet in Courbet’s place, those familiar with the Desperate Man meme format will recall ...

"[They] call me ‘the socialist painter.' I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a democrat and a Republican as well--in a word, a partisan of all the revolution and above all ...

It could be argued that Tony Oursler’s “Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education (Plus Some)” (2004), the sprawling, multimedia installation currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

Of all the jaw-dropping paintings in "Gustave Courbet," the landmark survey of the great French artist now at the Metropolitan Museum, the jaw drops farthest for one that was painted in 1866, for a ...

San Francisco — In 1853 Alfred Bruyas, the son of a banker who used the family fortune to collect art, visited the annual salon in Paris, where the talk of the show was a large painting by Gustave ...

Courbet demonstrated to the next generation of great artists—Manet, Monet, Cezanne and many others—that it is possible to succeed artistically and economically apart from government approval. Gustave ...

Given his provincial origins, the untamed manners he sometimes affected, his appetite for political combat and the sheer impudence of Given his provincial origins, the untamed manners he sometimes ...