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Bit O/T about what HS students paint in EU...
HS class of DD had this as one of the projects to paint for art class her graduation year. I find it a bit creepy for teens as a painting project what with stressy anxiety life of teens these modern years. They had more unusual things to paint too.
Sometimes think it influenced the not going to Art College her teachers say often to go.
Last edited by Nerys52SoSilver; 09-09-2021 at 11:31 AM..
Gustav Courbet's A Funeral at Ornans is very powerful.
Courbet painted a typical small-town funeral that was very realistic, and is huge- 10 feet x 20 feet.
The figures are nearly life-sized. Everything is as the traditions of France were in the 1940s. There are 3 generations of mourners, the coffin is draped with a white funeral cloth, the pallbearers are all weary from carrying the coffin for so long, and it's all true to life, down to stray dog who just wandered into the scene.
Everyone in it are common folks. There's no dignitaries, no finery, and it's extremely sad and somber. Courbet painted his parents into the scene, along with people he knew in Ornans, where he lived.
It still knocks viewers flat when seen, and at the time, it was a sensation.
Until then, the only paintings like it were of kings and nobles, and were much more a portrait gallery of the rich and powerful than a somber remembrance.
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