Courbet Stonebreakers

Courbets Stonebreakers Courbets stonebreakers is a photograph drawn by Gustave Courbet and shit been seen by two different art historians who write close to their opinions about Courbets meaning behind his painting. Courbets painting can either be interpreted as a painting that shows in detail hardship and emotion of manual labor, or a painting that just a simile as an act of painting, but the under place uprighting of it as hardship and emotion of manual labor is more sufficient because by the looks of the two workforce it reminds me of times where back in the day everything was done manually.Linda Nochlin is one of the art historians who argues about how some people dont really understand the meaning of Courbets painting. She tries to explain how in his painting he shows us how manual labor really is. He expressed how real it use to be and how demanding it was for those at the time of 1849. She believes that many people just see his painting as two workers just breaking ston es with lack of aerial perspective. Michael Fried another(prenominal) art historian argues that no one will ever know what Courbet was really trying to say.Fried believes that it remains an open question, that the poses, their clothes, how far they stand from each other can mean different things. He chooses to believe that Courbet just painted that because he like the scene of two men working in a environment with a lot of dirt. He thinks that Courbets painting can be interpreted as a an act of painting or an image of labor. Each author use the painting as evidence, but Fried seems to use some sort of story that was written about how Courbet was influenced to paint The Stonebreakers. Nochlins just gives us her opinion.Which even though their wasnt a story she had a good point. Even though Fried had facts and showed us that the painting can be seen as in either way I still have to agree with Nochlins opinion. Im genuine there are many ways to see the painting but I believe the pain ting comes more to life when you think of it as Courbet wake us how low class society in the mid 1800s manual labor use to be. It reminds me how difficult things use to be back thence and how now we have it way easier. Nochlins just seemed to grab my attention and convinced me more than Frieds point of view. Michelle Cavazos April 19, 2010