The full name of The Artist`s Studio was The Artist’s Studio, a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral. The painter’s conception was to show his artistic career since 1848, and contain a profound social philosophy. The painter painted made all his friends who had influenced his life and thought and models that he once painted into one picture. In addition, this painting also focused on all walks of life images from the society, showing a French society in miniature.

The Artist`s Studio was the most successful and most complicated work in painting processing of Gustave Courbet. The artist’s conception was to take this painting as a memory of his life after 1848; this painting described more than 30 people and each character had its own meaning: in the middle, there was a view that the painter made and the child in front of the painting represented “innocent eyes”; the naked female model represented the eyes of the artist Mousika, or truth; behind the painting, the Saint Sebastian was fixed in the cross, representing the dead school art. The painting was divided into two parts: the person who sat right and read a book was the poet Baudelaire, which symbolized “poetry”; in the front, a pair of men and women was standing there, which were the appreciators of painting; each character in turn had symbolic significance: “prose”, “philosophy”, “music”. Another part of the oil painting was the models that mostly painters painted, which was set as the society. They were described as poverty, depression, damaged and exploited people.