The first painting I chose was painted by Gustave Courbet in 1849. This is painting of young boy and an older man breaking stones to provide paving for a road. Courbet took a glimpse in into the life of the rural menial laborers. This backbreaking, poorly paid work fell to the lowest members of French Society, as the breakers tattered garments and utensils for a modest meal of soup confirm. Courbet suggested that those born to poverty will remain poor their entire lives. I chose this painting because it reminds me of when my father and mother when they were a child and they had to help the family as much as they could. My father family did not have much, and all the other siblings had to get jobs as well. My father and his father had clothes