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Blank white billboard mounted on metal poles in a dry grassy field, with a man walking toward it, seen from behind.

El origen del mundo The Origin of the World

Year
2013
Location
Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain
The same billboard partially painted with the first section of a mural showing a dark tree silhouette and a pale orange expanse, two ladders leaning against it, set in a dry field under a blue sky.
Close-up detail of hundreds of painted black ants converging into a dense central cluster on a peach-colored surface, a nod to Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde, with thinner trails of ants branching outward and downward across the textured wood panels.
The same billboard, a homage to Courbet's L'Origine du monde, partially covered by a length of green mesh fabric draped down the center, splitting the painted scene of converging ants and green folds into two halves.
The billboard entirely covered by a black mesh fabric draped over its full width, hiding the painted homage to Courbet's L'Origine du monde, standing on its metal supports in a dry grass field with trees in the background.

Photo: Guillermo de la Madrid

Wide view of the billboard, a homage to Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde, showing the full painted composition of black ants swarming toward a central mass across a skin-toned surface, framed by pale green fabric folds on both sides.