In the age of TikTok, the female gaze has lost all meaning
In 1866, Gustave Courbet painted a provocative icon of modern art: The Origin of the World. Hung in Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the painting shows a woman's thighs, torso, part of one breast and her hairy genitals. It's one of the most beautiful and powerful paintings of all time.
Jenna Gribbon, a queer figurative painter in...