Friday, 1 March 2013


Realism -Courbet Gustave: The stone breakers
Gustave Courbet is an artist which he worked in the realism period where I choose one of his paintings that he made which is called the stone breakers. This painting was destroyed in the World War II. Many of Courbet paintings are most focused on the everyday people where in this painting that I choose to talk about shows us clearly the two hardworking persons. He also focuses in the places in the daily France life. Because of Courbet’s paintings are most French he became to be known as the leader of the Realistic movement.
The stone Breaker was painted in the 1849 where it shoes us two ordinary peasant workers. The painter Courbet painted this painting without ant sentiment where instead he let the image of the two man where he made them one too young for the hard labor and the other one too old he made this to express his feelings where the feelings is of the hardship and also exhausting. He shows the sympathy for the workers and also disgusts the upper class by panting these two men with the dignity.

The stone breakers, painted in the 1849,
Gustave Courbet. 2013. Gustave Courbet. [ONLINE] Available at:https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/boheme/courbet.htm. [Accessed 01March 2013].

The stone breakers, painted in the 1849, . . . [ONLINE] Available at:http://faculty.etsu.edu/kortumr/HUMT2320/realism/adobejpgimages/02stonebreakerslarge.jpg. [Accessed 01March 2013].




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