Author: We love to see the trees in winter, stripped of their foliage and with exposed skeletons. The winter scenes and the shapes visible in the cold perspective have their own beauties. If we look with an artist's mind, we can trace out rhythm in embedded in the shapes formed by the trees standing on the barren land, in the branches of trees and their twigs, on the show fallen on a distant rooftop. Gustave Courbet had seen such beauty in the winter scenes; and he had painted many landscapes, which makes the viewers visually informed bout the colourful beauty of winter scenes.
Gustave Gourbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who came from an affluent family; but preferred to be among the life of the common men. He had emerged as a force in modern painting. He had properties situated in the south-east France, near the beautiful and snow covered mountain peaks of Alps, nearing the Swiss border. It made Courbet to come in close touch of the nature ad his artistic soul turned this opportunities into beautifully painted landscapes paintings.
In many of his paintings, Courbet had shown his artistic prowess in depicting the scenery with honesty. The snow-clad landscape and the foreground figures of a child and a village woman followed by a goat immediately put into a village scene during winter: this was his one of the finest paintings.
Courbet had painted several landscapes beautifying the winter. In this painting Village in Winter he had depicted his favourite subject, the harshness of the nature.
If the artist does not apply symbolism in his/her painting, the art work seems lacking something. But here Gustave Courbet has depicted the hardships of life through the snow covered land and the visible poverty of the woman. But the shining sun provides us the feel of hope and happiness.
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