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...Gustave Courbet was a handsome farmer's boy who grew up to be a beer-swilling, loud-mouthed giant-and one of the great painters of the 19th Century. While he lived, Courbet was generally belittled, and after his death he was eclipsed by the sunny brilliance of Manet. But the retrospective exhibition of Courbet's art staged in a Manhattan gallery last week, the biggest Courbet show ever seen in the U.S., gave ample proof of the big fellow's permanence and power...
Socialistic Plumpness. Because they had none of the sickly romanticism fashionable in his day, Courbet's paintings were laughed at. One critic complained that Courbet must be a socialist: his nudes were so plumply inelegant. Another of Courbet's critics may have been the first, but by no means the last, man to look at a picture and remark that his kids could do it better...
...curly-maned old lion could never have dreamed it, but his kind of painting, which put ideas ahead of emotions, was on the verge of obscurity for a century or more. The romantic French masters who followed him, from Courbet and Delacroix on, were apt to consider David more of a pedant than a painter-and a passionless clod to boot. They were wrong, as a huge David exhibition, the biggest showing of his work ever held, proved last week in Paris...
...solution (by British engineers) was ready by Dday. Sixty old ships (including H.M.S. Centurion, one of the earliest dreadnoughts, and the French battleship Courbet) followed the invasion armada. They were scuttled to form five breakwaters along the French coast, to provide immediate anchorage...
...such crews have long been aboard). Air coverage would also be a problem-Vichy has no carriers in the Mediterranean. Finally, the United Nations could counter the use of the Vichyfrench fleet by using "demilitarized" French warships now in their hands: the 22,000-ton battleships Lorraine, Paris and Courbet, four cruisers, an unknown number of smaller craft...