A Period Of Seven Years Of My Life As A Povat Analysis

John F. Moffitt’s describes 19th century Realism painter, Gustave Courbet as revolutionary. Along with Courbet's’, 1855 painting Workshop of the Painter: A Real Allegory Summarizing A Period of Seven Years of My Life as an Artist as revolutionary but also having an underlying pictorial. The print being revolutionary itself, with the many-layered iconography and textual topoi, but also revolutionary because the underlying pictorial is based from the time period of Courbet’s political views and the message of the painting itself. The revolutionary aspect of Courbet, himself and his political views beings with the love he had for his grandfather, and the underlying pictorial based from the work comes from Niquet Claude’s 1789 panting La Déclaration
Having diving the canvas into three frames the left and right wings of the canvas is what is considered good and bad and sharing the central pivot point as something bigger, “The ‘pivot’ of the 1789 print has the same distinctive rectangular shape and central places as Courbet’s landscape” (185). Both central pivot points of the works highlight at something bigger, for Courbet it was as Realist man showing him in the middle, while with Niquet is complete text of the seventeen articles. Each central pivot highlights a greater or well-rounded thought as to what is not being
Courbet and Niquet show parallels when it also comes to themes and composition. “My proposal that Niquet’s print is a lose thematic and compositional analogue to L’Atelier …Courbet’s compositional adjustment and modifications would be in this case, quite consistent with similar formal and iconographic transformations made by the painter in other transpositions from imagery popular in his previous works” (188). Theme between Niquet and Courbet when the left side of the painting concerns those who are considered evil having “feudal rights and privileges” (186). While on the right side of the painting concerns “people who thrive on life...society at its best”