Gustave Courbet, French
Artist with Nude Model Who Couldn’t Swing Day Care, 1855
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more).
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/// At Courbet’s model’s feet her dress dropped.
(To entice him, her kid, to adopt?)
If the frisky cat seems
to add too many themes,
you should see this before it was cropped.
/// What we’re shown here is far from complete.
Many figures they chose to delete.
There were crowds, left and right,
but we’ve focused your sight;
concentrate on the nude, as a treat.
/// Painter’s Studio is this work’s name.
Allegorical (so critics claim).
Many subjects are there,
such as Charles Baudelaire,
but the landscape Gustave paints is lame.
/// The female adult of this triad
inquired of the artist, “Gus, why had
you made me pose bare?
I don’t see me there.”
He answered, “I made you a dryad.”
/// This big fig tree with sinuous curves
is a mystical tree-nymph who serves
as a metaphor for
Mother Eve who once wore
a fig leaf to shield her from pervs.