Bather At the Source By Gustave Courbet

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Bather At the Source By Gustave Courbet
The Source (Bather At the Source)was made in
1868, which measured 128 x 97 cm. Now it is
preserved in Orsay Museum located in Paris,
France.
This painting was a rebellion against The Source
by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and also the
rebellion for female body and nude concept. On
the other hand, it was repeatedly draw by Courbet
who liked drawing the bathers sleeping along the
river, getting out of water or taking a shower.
Their bodies
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were always full of the breath of youth, which
was shapely and strong as rural women. Courbets
aesthetic view was very different from that of
romanticism, forming a sharp contrast. But this
was unacceptable for Courbet's
contemporaries. One critic terrified by the
realistic nude of Courbet wrote the hip of Venus
in Ornan's heart was very ugly.
In 1861 Gustave Courbet refuted the romantic
beauty form which was
commonly complied with. He wrote The art of
painting only depended on the performance of
those touched objects artist's imagination lied
in knowing to find the most complete performance
for an existing object, but never the imagined or
created object itself. Courbet did not try to let
his model make poses and make beautiful
movements. But behind her, he tried to show that
he abandoned the romantic painting habits. She
leaned on the diagonal lines of the painting,
with right hand holding the branches, left hand
into the waterfall , left leg
placing in the body line and right leg holding
back. He specially stressed the sun through the
branches and gently stroked the impression effect
of her plump buttocks. The naked color was
completely identical with that of women, which
highlighted the transparency in maroon and
green background. This was the combination of
Courbet's painting skills and
chromatic characteristics, which was a typical
example of vigor emitting from human bodies.
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