A woman rises from the sea with her arms raised behind her head, the waves breaking around her body. Courbet, the leader of Realism, paints her as a flesh-and-blood bather rather than a goddess born from the foam, with ruddy skin and a trace of underarm hair. A small sailing ship sits on the horizon under an evening sky.
Look closer
Note the trace of underarm hair, a realist touch that smooth academic nudes left out.
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