All levels welcome! French artist Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) didn't just paint pictures -- he picked fights with tradition and changed the course of art. Dee's lecture explores how Courbet, taunted as "the artist-apostle of ugliness," became the leader of the Realist art movement in the 1850s. You'll meet Courbet the provocateur: outspoken, arrogant, and fond […]