may 10, 1849 - 113. Stone Breakers

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Form:
-Realism (anti-heroism
-oil on canvas/chunky
-rough brushwork
-against neoclassical style that dominated French art
-dark palette
Content:
-young and old man
-faceless men doing painful work that will neber get them out of poverty
-this owrk is punishment for chain gangs
-rock=faces
Function:
-"painting of nothing"
-cycle of poverty
-works: economically and physically trapped
-accurate display of abuse and deprivation that was common in French rural life
Context:
-1849 (destroyed during bombing of Dresden in 1942)
-artist: Gustave Courbet (prolific artist)

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