Anarchism and the arts
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Anarchism has long had an association with the arts, particularly with visual art, music and literature. This can be dated back to the start of anarchism as a named political concept, and the writings
Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro
The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli by Carlo Carrà, 1911
Anarchist statue and mural
Cubist anarchist art, depicting the Tottenham protests
Gustave Courbet
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Rom
Anarchism and the arts
…This can be dated back to the start of anarchism as a named political concept, and the writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon on the French realist painter Gustave Courbet. In an 1857 essay on Courbet, Proudhon set out a principle for art, which he saw in the work of Courbet, that it should show the real lives of the…
Portrait photograph by Nadar, c. 1860s
Self-Portrait (Man with Leather Belt), c. 1845
Self-Portrait with Pipe, 1849, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
The Wave (La Vague), 1869, oil on canvas, 66 cm × 90 cm (26 in × 35 in), Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon