In What Way Was Gustave Courbet's the Stone Breakers (Fig

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Multiple Choice

In what way was Gustave Courbet's The Stone Breakers (Fig. 31-12) an explicit political statement?

• A) His elevated his lower-class subject to the heroic status afforded history painting.
• B) He refused to exhibit it in the Salon and wrote a manifesto criticizing the academies.
• C) He rejected academic conventions to idealize the subject.
• D) He depicted an actual event that spawned violent protests outside the city of Ornans.

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