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    Gustave Flaubert depicts setting and physical elements as literal and metaphorical methods of confinement in his novel Madame Bovary in order to demonstrate Emma Bovary's inability to escape the myriad of imprisoning forces within her life. Flaubert illustrates clothing as a restraint placed on Emma, both physically, and metaphorically through her dissatisfaction with her life. Flaubert delves into the manner in which satirizing Charles' overbearing nature explains Emma's imprisonment by Charles

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    scheduled activities on a trip. Parisian culture revolves around historic architecture, modern fashion, and the Catacombs. One of the most interesting and symbolic structures in Paris is the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower was finished by Alexandre- Gustave Eiffel in March of 1889 (Green 64-65). Alexander started the modern,

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    If you find any other people, except you, doing wrong things, how would you deal with this situation? Would you speak out with your own opinions in front of the people, and insist on your own ideas? Or, would you give up your personal principle and join them? On the surface, Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery” shows readers a tragedy that was caused by tradition and superstition. However, the primary cause of the tragedy is that people were afraid of confronting the social contract which was formed

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    Gustav Courbet

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    Gustave Courbet’s life runs between 1819-1877.His artwork, “The Painters studio” was painted in the years 1854 and 1855. In September ‘54, the Crimean war had started, British and French against the Russians. This work is an oil painting on a 361 x 598 cm canvas, and its location is at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. Courbet quotes his work as "a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic life" (c.1). The style conveyed is realist movement with everyday situations. Most people believe his work

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    A Formal Analysis of Gustave Courbet’s Burial at Ornans and Jean-François Millet’s Gleaners The realism era came about during the time of the Romantics, the time where imagination and ideology painted the artists canvas. To be a realist meant that an artist would paint what he actually saw and not an idea of something. For instance, if an artist were to paint a depiction of war, then all the gruesome details would probably be considered in the piece of art. The artist that essentially paved the

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    ______________ 17. McCoy, Claire Black, Dr. "Romanticism in France." Khan Academy. Accessed November 06, 2017. 18. Ibid. Rebellious works in art started showing in the works of artists that came to call themselves realists. 19 One such realist, Gustave Courbet, was considered important to the emergence of Realism in the mid-nineteenth century. Rejecting the classical and theatrical styles of the French Academy, his art insisted on the physical reality of the objects

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    Impressionism. Realism is defined as “treatment of forms, colors, space, etc., in such a manner as to emphasize their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience”(realism). Two artists that are well known for this style of art are Gustave Courbet and Jean-François-Millet. Impressionism is defined as “a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brushstrokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light

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    in France was truly a period for challenging arising issues in the midst a great change. Gustave Courbet’s The Stone Breakers and-Jean Francois Millet’s The Gleaners, are two paintings that use the style of realism to convey a unique perspective of the reality around them. (subjects, brush stroke, background) The Stone Breakers is a painting that was created in the year 1849, by French artist Gustave Courbet. This painting has the dimensions of 165 x 257 cm, and was done with the medium oil on canvas

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    What is realism? “Realism is interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc” (The). The word originated from France in 1794, it opposed idealism in not only philosophy but also art (The). The actual realism movement was basically delayed from when realism originated; the realism movement started around the 1840s (“Realism Movement”).  A realist looks at things/ situations through a realistic version compared to a average person who might sugar

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    Courbet Vs Marx Summary

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    The final showdown: Courbet VS Marx Gustave Courbet once said, "When I die, let it be said of me: He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty. (The Painter's Key) “The reader can understand from this phrase that Courbet didn't want to be associated with a class; he wanted the artistic freedom not to be restrained in the world. This idea can be seen in his 1855 painting "The Painters Studio" where an artist situated

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