Showing posts with label gustave courbet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gustave courbet. Show all posts

Thursday, June 5, 2008

In your face! Now consider this
















Gustave Courbet, L'Origine du Monde, 1866, Musee d'Orsay*



















Tanja Ostojic, L'origine du monde, 2002


Courbet's work was part of the Realist movement and questions society's moral values. What do you think Ms. Ostojic could be getting at? (It may {or may not} be helpful to know that she is Serbian, and the circle of stars is the emblem for the European Union)
Read more at the Musee d'Orsay and/or ARTMargins.