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Whose self-portrait is an example of the realism he pioneered?

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The Desperate Man (Self-portrait) by
Retry Correct Incorrect According to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Gustave Courbet’s realism wasn’t just a pursuit of detailed, realistic depictions of people but their lives. This caused an uproar among the elitists of the Paris Salon in the early 1850s for presenting the lives of ordinary people as they were and seeking to blur class boundaries.
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Whose self-portrait is an example of the realism he pioneered?

  • Gustave Courbet
  • Honoré Daumier
  • Edward Hopper
  • Jean-François Millet
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