Paul Galvez | “Courbet’s Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting”
Channel: Barnes Foundation
Date: 2022-06-09

In this talk, art historian Paul Galvez follows Gustave Courbet on his travels and explores how the artist turned Romantic landscapes into paintings that reflect direct, bodily experiences of nature. The Courbet that Galvez discovers is not the celebrated history painter of provincial life but a creator of daring landscapes whose materialist view of nature aligned him with contemporary developments in linguistics, history, geology, and literature. By painting sites suggestive of origins—caves, dark riverbeds, vast oceans—Courbet introduced raw physical substance into a world of illusion. He thus forged a path upon which future painters would march well into the next century.

About the Speaker
Paul Galvez is research associate at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. His book Courbet’s Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting is set to appear May 24, 2022, from Yale University Press, London. A scholar of modern art from the 19th century to the present, Galvez was guest curator of Object Lessons: Jay DeFeo Works on Paper from the 1970s (Galerie Frank Elbaz, Dallas in 2018) and has recently written on Cézanne and James Ensor for Artforum.

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