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One Lake, Three Ways

Lake Geneva painted three times in forty years, by a Realist, a Symbolist and a modernist.

Sources: Wikipedia: Gustave CourbetWikipedia: Ferdinand HodlerWikipedia: Alice Bailly

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Gustave Courbet was jailed for six months for his part in the Paris Commune. In 1873 he left France for Switzerland, and spent his last four years in exile there.

Source: Wikipedia
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Ferdinand Hodler walked to Geneva at eighteen to become a painter. He came to believe in 'parallelism': repeating shapes arranged in symmetry and rhythm.

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Alice Bailly, from Geneva, spent the years before 1914 in Paris among the Cubists. When the war began she went home to Switzerland and made her own versions of their broken forms.

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