The original text of the poem about quarrying is as follows:

1. Original text

This is the fracture of the mineral vein. Over time, layers of rock are exposed to the earth. , they came, they were a group of quarrymen, a group of people tracking stones. In front of them, the silence of the mountains was the expectation of centuries after centuries, and they were not people watching the storm. They rubbed their palms together and bent down in front of the mountain, as if they were dreaming.

They began to touch the hardest reality, so the sound of hammers made the chisels advance inch by inch. The mountain rock turned reddish brown in pain, and the future shape was reluctantly moving from Revealed during the consolidation, these are the quarrymen, these are the people who specialize in struggling with stones. When they bent down again, I thought of those monuments rising from the ground.

2. Introduction to the author

Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 - December 31, 1877) was a famous French painter, realist The founder of the school of painting. He advocated that art should be based on reality and opposed to whitewashing life. His famous saying is: "I can't draw angels because I have never seen them."

In 1856, he visited Germany and was warmly received welcome. He refused the Cross of the Legion of Honor awarded by Napoleon III, which greatly increased his popularity. After the establishment of the Paris Commune in 1871, he was elected as a member of the Commune, president of the Artists Association, and responsible for the museum. He firmly advocated the overthrow of the symbol of imperialist war. Vend?me Column.

3. Appreciation of works

In 1849, Gustave Courbet saw two quarrymen, an old man and a young man, on the road. They were wearing coarse clothes and simple wooden quarries. Soled shoes, chipping away at the roadside and hauling rocks with difficulty. Their miserable situation and embarrassment made a deep impression on Courbet. He believed that art must describe this real scene, rather than artificial art.

So he created the painting "Quarrymen", now in the National Art Collection in Dresden. In this painting, the quarrymen are located in front of a towering hillside, which is almost filled with The entire picture only shows a small patch of blue sky in the right corner of the picture. The painting mainly depicts two characters, one old and one young - Alpha and Omega. The other is a poor young man with a pale face, and his steps are slightly slow due to the heavy stones, which is extremely disproportionate to his actual appearance.

He was wearing a tattered shirt, his trousers were tied with a rope, his knees were patched, the trousers legs had long been torn, and he wore a pair of rough reddish-brown shoes on his feet. On the right side of the picture is an older quarry worker, wearing old wooden shoes repaired with leather and an old straw hat that is covered in dirt due to the sun and rain. He leaned on the straw mat with trembling knees, holding a stone hammer and hitting the rocks hard.

Due to long-term skilled labor, his strikes are very precise. At the same time, due to old age and frailty, hitting is so incompetent. However, no matter how much pain he suffered, his face was still so calm and peaceful. Courbet's faithful reproduction of the tragic life of French civilians began to break away from classical norms, and his outspoken realism style aroused strong social repercussions.

Courbet insisted that only the contemporary world is a suitable subject matter for artists, and artists of one era are completely unable to reproduce the appearance of another era, and painting is contemporary.