Ecstasy of St. Therese (detail) Bernini 1652
"The sublime, like the beautiful, is prodigally diffused throughout the whole of nature and the capacity to apprehend both is implanted in all men; but the potentiality to do so is unequally developed and must be aided by art." Schiller
Origine de Monde Courbet
The year was 1866 and Courbet was already a well-known painter in France for his technical skill, but mostly for his critical and corrosive attitude towards the bourgeois society and its moral values.
The Origin of the World was an inspired work of art, visionary even,a most important aesthetic act and a work of grandeur.
Begining of the World Brancusi 1920
Origine de Monde Pionteki Kehrlein 1985
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