Word: loue
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...turned up appropriately enough in the collection of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. It is a frontal view of a woman's pubes, painted with vast enthusiasm: the symbolic climax, one might say, of the series of dark caverns Courbet painted in his native countryside, The Source of the Loue, 1864. The objectivity of Courbet's work connotes a deep and sensuous love of whatever he painted. Sometimes his portraits of dead birds and animals -- like the brilliant Girl with Seagulls, Trouville, 1865 -- hark back to 18th century prototypes like Oudry, but their pressing reality comes from Courbet...
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