Sorry if you got the huge pic of Courbet's painting

[chani]

I thought it would be smaller... But it's fixed now thanks to the magic button....I mean the LJ cut

I'm watching a documentary about the clitoris. 8 000 nerve endings on the top guys!

 

 

Next i'm going to watch Jet Li in Fist of Legend....

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[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I love that painting... L'origine du monde, isn't it?

One time photographer Michiel Hendrickx explained on tv what's so special about this painting. You have the woman with her legs open, but she's faced sideways, so you're prone to go a bit to your left to have a better look, but because it's a painting, you can't have a better look. The point of view stays the same! ;-)

8000 nerve endings! No wonder it's bit too sensitive sometimes. :-(

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's why vaginas almost have no nerve endings...otherwise childbirth would have been impossible (well before the peridural area!).

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I meant era not area...

LOL

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

That's just smut in the good ole USA.... *sigh* Though I think his "Woman with a Parrot" and a couple of other nudes are in the MET. Even so, if that were a man, would the painting have the consideration which Courbet's women have so received?

I did visit the Minneapolis Institute of Art one day (ages ago) when I was up north. I think I saw Courbet's view of Ornans (his hometown?) and some other painting with deer in it - landscapes, no nudes! Though I do like his Landscape in the Jura, which I came across when I was researching my ancestors in that Department.