INTRODUCTION We are born sans nothing. Since then our bare bodies are as fragile as our minds. The environment that surrounds us shapes us and creates the bases of our beliefs on what is righteous and what not. Since the beginning of times a web of social, economic and political forces were built by those who wanted to remain as the solely person of power. Knowledge is power and in order to have a herd of sheep rather than a pack of wolves one must remain ignorant. Subsequently societies developed their own rules and ways in which they desired their people to remain in the sense of freedom and education. Art is an endless web of lines that intertwines with every social, political and economic aspect that was present at the moment with other places and other periods of time. Originally used to record and adorn their environment art symbolizes their religious beliefs along with their …show more content…
Despite him being an artist from the 19th century, and I aim to focus on artists from the 20th century, his shocking change of heart in the way he uses realism opened many doors that revolutionized the way in which sexuality and nudism is seen. Courbet ‘committed to paint only what he could see’ changed the smoothly, perfect, stereotyped way that usually accompanied nudism. His rejection for the traditional romantic previous views place him as an innovator and a ground breaking artist who would later unchain a series of consequences in favor of the reality rather than a very euphemized, more of a lie than, truth. His constant seek for freedom eventually condone him to imprisonment showing the real position where art lies, in the middle of a very intertwined web that involves everything from politics to economics eventually leading to who owns the power and what they would do to preserve the order that had already been perpetuated for so