- Four Paramount French Romantic and Realist Painters: Gericault-Delacroix-Courbet-Manet
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We focus on these four renowned rebel painters (active 1815- 70) who paved the way to Impressionism and Modernism. The Anglophile and equestrian, Géricault, captured the spirit of wild horses in action, did unprecedented portraits of mental patients, and left a powerful masterpiece, "The Raft of the Medusa." Delacroix, the quintessential Romantic, revived the colorful and grandiose style of Rubens and discovered a special kind of light during his visit to North Africa; Courbet, leader the Realist movement, monumentalized everyday scenes, which he rendered in a bold, dark technique. Manet shocked viewers with a new type of realism, inspired by Japanese prints with novel spatial arrangements. Moreover, he reduced objects and figures to highly simplified forms, making him the Father of Modern art.
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