Gustave Courbet: The Source
Courbet escaped from the traditional norms of painting by subordinating the description of nature to an eminently personal experience. His reasons were mainly those of his native region, Franche-Comté. The valley of the Loue, caves and woods, and were tirelessly visited as many benchmarks necessary for the balance of his painting. The harmony of the natural and animal was celebrated with lyricism, as the merger of women with nature. The Source ignores the allegorical academicism usually reserved to the subject and is part of the series of paintings that Courbet devoted to the most noble and most unequivocal theme of the painting, the nude. By unveiling the truth of a body marked by wearing the corset, and by including it in the context of an identity landscape, the canvas daringly symbolizes as much a taste of the real, the imaginary painter. [Musée d'Orsay]
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