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A bit of humour

From: [Realism Now, by Linda Nochlin]

      Courbet was accused of painting objects just as one might 
      encounter them, without any compositional linkage, and of 
      reducing art to the indiscriminate reproduction of the first 
      subject to come along. "He makes his stones as important 
      as his stone breakers", complained one outraged critic of 
      the eponymous painting.

Well, I should certainly hope so!  As we all know eponoymouse
can spread to all sorts of things if this sort of thing isn't sorted
out and stopped here-to-with a-fore-foot.