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Facebook also ran into trouble when they recently removed a photo of the 1866 painting "The Origin of the World" by Gustave Courbet, which is a representation of female genitalia, and deleted the user's account.
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Remarkable portraits by artists such as Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet show young girls and women, often anonymous sitters, depicted with an increased complexity and level of independence.
Canadian Architect : Headline News Canadian Architect 2010
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Her refashioning of images by Edgar Degas and Gustave Courbet, and of sculptures by Constantin Brancusi betray a dwindling of ideas.
Duchamp Redux Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Ornans, France—It has become almost a commonplace to link the French realist painter Gustave Courbet 1819-1877 to his rural birthplace, this village on the Loue River in the easternmost region of the Franche-Comté.
The Rise and Fall of a Master Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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Fellow impressionist Gustave Courbet was one of the witnesses.
The jealous love rival who tried to erase all trace of Monet's muse 2011
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In these expressionistic paintings, inspired seemingly by Gustave Courbet, Eugène Delacroix, Peter Paul Rubens and Albert Pinkham Ryder, Mr. Saulnier b. 1958 merges figure, landscape, serpent and sea, all fragmented to near-abstraction.
Exploring Spaces And Life's Continuity Lance Esplund 2011
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The drawings show includes images of female genitals even more explicit than Gustave Courbet's 1866 "L'Origine du Monde."
Freud's Changing Perspective Paul Levy 2012
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Long forgotten, he was rediscovered in the 19th century and embraced by such master manipulators of paint as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet and John Singer Sargent.
Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery Karen Wilkin 2011
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They will include "Jupiter and Antiope," also known as "Venus and Satyr," a 17th-century canvas by Nicolas Poussin depicting a naked horned satyr discovering a nude woman sleeping in a wooded landscape; Jean-Honoré Fragonard's bare-breasted "Young girl holding two puppies" (circa 1770); and "Femme nue" (1865-66) by Gustave Courbet, an erotic painting of a naked woman with a siren's smile.
In With the Old in Paris Margaret Studer 2011
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A gallery of deep-purple walls abuts the pavillion and houses four massive canvases by Gustave Courbet; two of the best-known, "A Burial at Ornans" and "The Artist's Studio," which were nearly impossible to see in the sunlit glare of their previous hang, are shown to staggering effect in their dramatically illuminated new home.
New Visions Arrive at the Orsay Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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