The Painting That Started a War: How Gustave Courbet's Realism Broke 19th-Century France in Half

Before we had culture wars, France had Gustave Courbet — a gloriously self-important peasant's son who deliberately painted the wrong people, the wrong size, in the wrong way, and watched the establishment completely lose its mind. This episode is about how one stubborn, mud-boots artist turned a canvas into a political grenade, got himself exiled, and accidentally invented the blueprint every rebel artist since has been following. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.