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What I love most about this painting is that it's so much like Michelangelo's David, yet, it does not so much idealize the female form so much as present the realistic female form in all its glory.
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Dean, by the way, there is a lovely Bougereau in the DIA, which you probably are already aware of, called The Nut Gatherers (or something like that.) Unfashionable perhaps, but I love much of the Franch Academic Art from the 19th century (including much of the Orientalist painters like Gerome). I like much of the impressionist work that was a reaction against it, but I just don't agree with today's art orthodoxy that Academic painting was boring, dry, and repetitive. Much of it is quite beautiful.
It is a wonderful work of art.
;-)
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.