Courbet's "l'Origine du monde" Tagged in Orange
May 9 2024
Video: France 3 Grand Est
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from France that Gustave Courbet "l'Origine du monde" was target by protestors at the Centre Pompidou-Metz over the weekend and 'tagged' in orange paint with the 'Me Too' slogan.
According to Artnews.com article linked above:
This is not the first feminist protest staged by De Robertis at a museum, or even the first targeting of Courbet. In 2014 the artist exposed her vulva in front of Origin of the World at the Musée d’Orsay, and two years later, she returned there to strip off her clothes—save for a portable video camera tied around her neck—and lie on the floor in front of Edouard Manet’s nude painting Olympia (1863). The latter protest led to a charge of public indecency and nearly two days detained in a jail cell.
