Waves
Gustave Courbet captures the raw, untamed power of the ocean here, with a massive, dark green wave curling menacingly over jagged rocks. As a leader of the Realism movement, he refused to prettify nature, showing the sea exactly as it looked—churning, violent, and beautiful. He painted many of his most famous seascapes while living in exile in Switzerland after the Paris Commune, desperately missing the French coast. The thick, textured brushstrokes are so vigorous they make you almost feel the cold spray of the salt water.
- Technique
- Oil painting
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