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Chateau Lapeyre – Vertical
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Switzerland is the biggest wine-importer in the world. The Swiss enjoy it with meals and white wine is the favorite aperatif. Their own wines are excellent. Drink them young from the local vineyards. The best red wines come from Ticino, Lake Geneva, Neuchatel and Dole (Valais). The best whites are Hermitage, Fendant and Johannesberg from the Valais (the highest vineyards in Europe); St-Saphorn, and Dezaley from the Vaud. Glühwein, a hot spiced wine, is the inevitable apres-ski drink. Grisons wines include Malans, Jenins and Zizers, and some fine Rhine type wines are produced in the Schaff-hausen region. Liqueurs are delicious and strong: Marc, Kirsch, Pflümli, Williammine are the best known. Most imported wines, spirits and beers are available. In Berne, the Klötzlikeller is a lively wine cellar and Meyer is good for coffee and cakes.

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While in Courbet, Realism had for its inception an artist of peculiar limitations as a colorist and otherwise,
it had also one of almost retrieving qualities as exemplified, for instance, in his handling of rhythmic line, the
absence of which is obvious in Millet. Largely selftaught, not from lack of means and opportunity, but from intense though narrow convictions, coupled with an obstinate self-esteem which to him made his very defects appear like excellencies, Courbet had turned with contempt from teachers whose pupils were perpetrating the sentimental and inane.

The Meeting – La Rencontre or Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, 1854 Giclee Print
Courbet, Gustave
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Courbet the realist was in no way of the Millet type of French peasant, but rather that antithesis which the scalpel of Zola has dissected so unmercifully. Without that imagination, thought, and poetic fervor, which had lifted Millet above his birth and over those of Barbizon to whom, nevertheless, he was held by love’s unbreakable bond, Courbet had chosen Paris as his ideal, though quite incapable of conforming to its polite requirements.



Self Portrait with Striped Collar Giclee Print
Courbet, Gustave

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It may be said of Courbet that an insatiable craving for prominence–whether attained through art, or mere personal eccentricity, or some offence against custom together with an unflagging determination to be the center of a worshipping circle, was the mainspring of his life and the energy behind his enormous output of canvases wherein little sense of movement was attained, and whose technique was their chief excellence, and in which the camera had its forerunner. It should not be supposed that the Apostle of Realism could rise to any lofty aim, or, like Millet, await with patience the sure yield of future years, for Realism is of the soil and, with earthward look and impatient voice, it demands a speedy harvest.



Courbet with His Black Dog, 1842 Giclee Print
Courbet, Gustave
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Because a phase of materiality, the absolute Realism of Courbet afforded no goal for an art destined to depart more and more from the depicting of form as recognized by the eye. The first painter to make noticeable this peculiar modern tendency was Daumier whose early work as a caricaturist had prepared him
for the innovation. It was the misfortune of the caricaturist–turned from his vocation through political reasons–that the serious output of his mature years should be regarded by many as only another phase of his youthful efforts.



Portrait of Zelie Courbet, circa 1842 Giclee Print
Courbet, Gustave
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