Gustave Courbet saw himself as not only an artist but as a social reformer. his painting, The Stone Breakers, is one of his greatest. With this painting, how is he trying reform society? Why can't we see the men's faces? Is this a pleasant painting for you to view?
Edouard Manet's The Picnic. When Manet entered this painting into a national contest, it shocked the judges and eventually the public. Why?