The flood, 1928
There was a post on Facebook the other day about how their no-nudes policy had been challenged by a French art teacher over a gif of Courbet’s The Origin of the World, and apparently the 150-year-old painting still shocks, because commenters were freaking out. Thing is, I got the distinct feeling it wasn’t even the nudity that upset them, it was the pubic hair – a lot of the complaints were along the lines of “thank god I live in an era where waxing has been invented” (the same commenter later posted a photo of a dog with the caption “looks similar.”) Are 21st-century adults that unable to handle the image of a woman without a Brazilian?
Not sure if depressed or delighted that to many modern men I’m grotesque and monstrous.
Mooncustafer 