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The Floor Scrapers (1875)
The Floor Scrapers was painted in 1875 by Gustave Caillebotte. One of his most famous paintings, Caillebotte used oil on canvas with dark neutrals and other dark tones to convey this painting. Exhibited in the second Impressionist movement in 1876, it combines the birds-eye view of Japanese prints with the authenticity of naturalist painting. The Floor Scrapers reintroduces the male nude model. It did not have the features of a mythological painting of a god of antiquity, but instead showed the heroes of modern life in stooped poses that would appear to be demeaning in a way, but conveys them in a different way as they present masculinity and the value of hard labor. The keen sense of light that was an important part of the Impressionist movement is used in this painting with the large window letting in the floods of light for the men to work.