The Painter's Studio: A Painted Autobiography
Listen to the Story: 6 minutes
Description:
The Painter’s Studio, along with A Burial at Ornans, The Desperate Man, The Origin of the World and The Stone Breakers, are some of Gustave Courbet’s most famous paintings. The Painter’s Studio has, among all these enumerated paintings, has a significant importance in Courbet’s life as it is, as the title of the video suggests, a painted autobiography. Here, he makes a great display of individuality and independence by voicing his artistic and political opinions and influences.
