HI :D

The piece of art that i choose is the "beginning of the world" is an oil on canvas painted by the french artist Gustave Courbet in 1866. The first time that i saw it was in the university, in a class about the beginning of the avant-garde. i like so much this artist and i love the avant-garde, but this painting in particular is important to me beacuse reflect a lot of reflection. This painting belong to the realism. The master piece is a representation of the genital and abdomen of a naked woman (close up view). This piece represent(among other things) the erotism ,the confrontation and the rupture of the paradigm...but the most important of this painting is that it was hidden for a long time. This painting was a lot owners, but the final owner was Lacan and his wife Sylvia Bataille. Well in this painting we can find a lot of things, history, myth, a controversial nude, a erotic and provocative close up view, a diferent plane of representation, a rupture of the method and paxis of the contemporary art. All that the avant-garde mean or try to signify.