La Vague (The Wave)
1869
19世紀フランスを代表する写実主義（レアリスム）の画家。 当時の保守的な美術界や伝統に真っ向から反発し、1855年のパリ万国博覧会では審査に不満を持ち、独自に「…
A dark bluish-green sea beneath a heavy, overcast stormy sky.
Between them, a colossal wave, seemingly about to crash down on us, breaks into white spray.
The setting is Étretat, a coastal town in Normandy, northwestern France. For the painter Courbet, who grew up in a mountainous inland village, the sea had long been an unknown world, both terrifying and captivating.
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