Courbet’s political intention to make everything equally is to the extents of equalizing from the workers’ hands and face, and stones of the background in this painting. Thus, the painting seems to be lacking composition that selects and organizes and aerial perspective to create the sense of this is real to the audience. Courbet depicts the two workers ― on right, a very old man and on the left, a very young boy ― as anonymous and faceless to juxtaposing these two men to show whose fate is to born into poverty is destined to be poor. The color palettes of grays, whites, and browns effectually expresses the monotonous and mechanical nature to demonstrate straightforwardly the merciless soil and the harsh working circumstances of the job as
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Before Calliebotte made the artwork, the rapid growth of the population of Paris doubled to become over one million from 1800 to 1850 resulted in a great pressure on Paris due to the huge overpopulation issue. In the 1850, the majority of Paris’s infrastructures was still not up to date, remaining the unplanned narrow winding streets of medieval style, featuring open sewers that were breeding grounds for disease due to carrying sewage, that were not efficient for commerce and traffic. Thus, Emperor Napoleon III of the French Second Empire selected Baron Haussmann (1809-1891) for the Renovations of Paris in the 1853-1870 to renovate Paris into a worthy contemporary capital with great economy during the time as well as for a political reason: prevention any future French Revolution due to six previous experience from 1790 to 1850 with the France monarchy, Republics, and
Before Calliebotte made the artwork, the rapid growth of the population of Paris doubled to become over one million from 1800 to 1850 resulted in a great pressure on Paris due to the huge overpopulation issue. In the 1850, the majority of Paris’s infrastructures was still not up to date, remaining the unplanned narrow winding streets of medieval style, featuring open sewers that were breeding grounds for disease due to carrying sewage, that were not efficient for commerce and traffic. Thus, Emperor Napoleon III of the French Second Empire selected Baron Haussmann (1809-1891) for the Renovations of Paris in the 1853-1870 to renovate Paris into a worthy contemporary capital with great economy during the time as well as for a political reason: prevention any future French Revolution due to six previous experience from 1790 to 1850 with the France monarchy, Republics, and