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A Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet. The painting depicts the funeral of his great-uncle. Clergymen and mourners stand around a grave. Why did the artist of the above painting place all the figures in rows in the picture plane?

Answer 1

Gustave Courbet and the modern painting of artisan life. ... But then his picture stands alone amongst the works of the Romanticists, and is too ... The basis of his art was faithful and loving observation of life as it was around him, the pure ... freed from all unnecessary detail, and marked down in its great characteristic lines.