![]() ![]() As for the asymmetry, the viewpoint does not allow one to judge that. Then the lateral "swelling" is far from being proven. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, Savatier offers the following gloss on the meaning of The Origin of the World, that it may be a representation of Eve, "the symbol of the eternal feminine, sexualized as well as maternal, at the origin of humanity, the origin of the world." Philippe Dagen poses some objections to the theory in an article ( La femme de "L'Origine du monde" était-elle enceinte ?, March 6) for Le Monde (my translation): First of all, this is a painting, and Courbet could certainly have taken pleasure in "turning the volume up" a bit by separating himself from a literal imitation of the model - supposing that he had a model, which is not established. Working with gynecologists and other medical specialists, Savatier has advanced the theory that the woman shown in the painting is depicted with a slight bulge in her stomach, in a way consistent with a woman who is in the sixth month of pregnancy (and her first pregnancy, at that). Courbet specialist Thierry Savatier has just published a new edition of his book on the painting, L'Origine du monde: Histoire d'un tableau de Gustave Courbet (Bartillat). Gustave Courbet's infamous painting L'Origine du monde has come up here before. ![]()
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