What did the Realist Gustave Courbet believe should be the subject matter of painting?

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: He believed that artists should be confined to accurate observations of the phenomena of daily life, without any "greater" reality beyond what lay before their eyes.

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a. is generally harmonically unstable. b. presents themes and transforms them so that they are different from the original hearing. c. falls between the exposition and recapitulation. d. all of the above.

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Pop divas in the 1980s and 1990s have helped erase ethnic background as an issue in romantic music

a. True b. False

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