Eroticism or realism? Pornography or anatomy? You tell me. This famous picture painted in oil on canvas by Gustave Courbet in 1866 has been provocative from the very start. For a long time it was privately owned (hanging in the bedroom?), but you can now see it in Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Erotic or not, I find the view of people in the museum meticulously inspecting this painting titillating in itself. Watching the watchers.

At the risk of posting a cliché, I thought it still should be part of this community’s art collection. Who knows, maybe we accidentally educate a casual passer-by.

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    1 year ago

    Many years ago a former work colleague thought it amusing to have a postcard of this picture displayed on his desk. His argument that it was art, not porn, didn’t go down well with HR.