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Style: Realism

Topic: Countryside Rocks

Date: 1849

Size: 165 x 257 cm

Technique: Oil On Canvas

Like Romanticism, Realism was a broad cultural movement in the 19th century that had its origin in literature and philosophy. In painting, its most prominent representative was Gustave Courbet. His Stonebreakers represented workers, as he had seen them, in monumental form. The Stonebreakers, destroyed during the bombing of Dresden in 1945, was the first of Courbet's great works.

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