courbet

Max Buchon was a friend of Gustave Courbet. Max wrote an essay to publicize Courbet’s painting of the stonebreakers and a burial at Ornan. He wrote about the two paintings, what he thought about them and what the author thought about them. He also talked about how these paintings were so very realistic in the way the showed the bourgeoisie life. He also argued about Courbet not being a socialist as people thought he …

…is like that, not Paris. And that it is uglier to paint a businessman with his pale face and thin lips. Over all, Buchon is concerned with what the people think about the portrait because he loves it. He wants people to know that it looks like real life, that it is even life size. Max thinks that Courbet is a genius and separates painters with mediocrity because he put so much work in it.