Gustav Coubert, His paintings and the Realistic movement

Gustav Courbet was a french painter who lived during the 18th century. He is remembered as the man who was a pivot of the Realistic movement in art. The aim of this movement was to paint the human body as we see it. In addition it also involved painting real life images of slums and poverty. 

Gustav believed that women should be painted as seen with pubic hair. In this he differed with the classical Greek art which considered that women be drawn, painted or sculpted without hair. Thus we have Greek images of art of women without hair, more as white plaster images. Gustav Courbet painted what he liked best and believed in. He painted women in the nude. many of his paintings adorn the art galleries in France and millions of his prints are sold world wide. Some of his paintings are reproduced below

painting displayed at the paris Art Museum