Threesome, part of the male fantasy, and the female
attendant is also naked, and part of the group sex. Apparently must have
resonated with Lois. Arrangement of women, swan in a less powerful position,
and is smaller, neck is almost shrinking back. That is very telling – not being
dominated by the swan and has a togetherness air. Swan metaphor for the King of
France, hides enormous power. There is complicity between the women and is a
very permissive painting. Makes the audience complicit.
Boucher
- Was a French painter, who was a proponent of the Rococo style.
- Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes
- Rococo style: an 18th-century artistic movement and style and developed in Paris, France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry and strict regulations of the Baroque, especially that of the Palace of Versailles. In such a way, Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture. Rococo art and architecture in such a way was ornate and made strong usage of creamy, pastel-like colours, asymmetrical designs, curves and gold. Unlike the more politically focused Baroque, the Rococo had more playful and often witty artistic themes.
- His art typically forgoes traditional rural innocence to portray scenes with a definitive style of eroticism as his mythological scenes are passionate and intimately amorous rather than traditionally epic. Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV, whose name became synonymous with Rococo art, was a great admirer of his work.
A female/male fantasy? Lots of swans, lots of women. World of
male power still exists here. Are there different stages in the action,
children to having wings, to the swan seducing her, to then the woman being
clothed, and the swan flying away? Embedded in an ideal situation. A more
consensual situation. What looks consensual may not be, however, due to the
connection with power. Central, the body is open to the swan. Artist was
religious – strong tradition of using the same space to depict different stages
in the actions
Correggio
- Foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Rococo art of the 18th century.
- Correggio conceived a now-famous set of paintings depicting the Loves of Jupiter as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The voluptuous series was commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga of Mantua, probably to decorate his private Ovid Room in the Palazzo Te. However, they were given to the visiting Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and thus left Italy within years of their completion.
- Leda and the Swan, now in Staatliche Museen of Berlin, is a tumult of incidents: in the centre Leda straddles a swan, and on the right, a shy but satisfied maiden. Danaë, now in Rome's Borghese Gallery, depicts the maiden as she is impregnated by a curtain of gilded divine rain. Her lower torso semi-obscured by sheets, Danae appears more demure and gleeful than Titian's 1545 version of the same topic, where the rain is more accurately numismatic. The picture once called Antiope and the Satyr is now correctly identified as Venus and Cupid with a Satyr.
Woman has the figure the Nazi nude would have, no excess
flesh there, trained body. It is very difficult to establish her social status.
The jewellery may suggest she is a society lady. The setting might suggest that
is the case, an upper middle class lady. The swan – over-mastering, large swan
– is enormously dominant. Nazi ideology relation of man to woman – he had to
show mastery, must be at the top, and in paintings of family, the man is at the
top/the important one. Must be portrayed as the dominant one showing his
prowess. The woman – turning to her side with a kind of disgusted resignation,
the rape mistaken with consent. An acquiescence in the obvious dominance of the
man. Hitler bought the painting on sight – saw it as good, Nazi art. It
expresses male brute power over women dressed up as consent.
Padua
- Paul Mathias Padua was born in Salzburg, but grew up in poverty with his grandparents in the Lower Bavarian Geiselhöring and Straubing on. At the age of nine he lost his father. From there she moved Padua to Murnau and Munich . Padua interrupted his academic education from an early stage and focused on his painting. Padua's early work is mainly due to the work of the painter Wilhelm Leibl influenced his later work became increasingly by the New Objectivity coined. 1922 Padua member of the Munich Artists' Association . In subsequent years, Padua images were exhibited regularly. In 1928 he was awarded the Georg-layer Prize and in 1930 the Albrecht-Dürer-Prize of the City of Nuremberg . In the 1930s, Padua increased awareness so that he exhibited on numerous trips outside the region of Munich and other European countries.
- Padua's career as a young, traditional art facing artist was rather unusual since he had enjoyed no completed academic training. He was recognized in the Third Reich as an artist and was on the Great German Art Exhibitions 1938-1944 in the House of German Art in Munich with 23 works, including Still Life , represented and female nudes. 1937 and 1940 he received the Lenbachplatz price of the City of Munich for portraits (1937 / Clemens Krauss ), and in 1938 the award for the best children's portrait. Among those portrayed are found Franz Lehár , Gerhart Hauptmann and Otto Hahn .
- At the beginning of World War II Padua was in a propaganda company drafted as a war artist, after a slight injury during the Western campaign he was sent in May 1940 he returned to Germany. Until 1943 he painted some of the most famous images of the German Nazi propaganda art, such as "The leader speaks" in which Adolf Hitler is touted as the epitome of the Nazi conception of religion. The painting "The 10th May 1940, "which glorifies the start of the Western campaign, based on the history of style realism of the 19th Century and provides art politically national community and leadership principle dar. 1943 Padua was "with three works in the exhibition Young Art in the German Reich "in the Vienna Künstlerhaus represented. Among "Still life with meat", "Still Life with Flowers" and "Florist". 1943 moved Padua to St. Wolfgang in Austria. At the exhibition German artists and the SS in 1944 in Salzburg was of him the picture "The tourists" issued. About his denazification in Austria is not known.
- 1951 Padua returned back to Germany. In the Tegernsee valley he opened his own "Gallery on the Lake". As a portrait painter , he painted Friedrich Flick and Helmut Horten , Makarios III. , Herbert von Karajan , Josef Ertl and Franz Josef Strauss . From 1960, Padua regularly traveled to Portugal in the fishing town of Nazaré . He died on 22 August 1981 in Rottach-Egern the effects of a brain stroke
Yeat's poem
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower[20]
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Yeats
- An Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature
- He served as an Irish Senator for two terms
- Driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman
- In 1889, Yeats met Maud Gonne, then a 23-year-old English heiress and ardent Irish Nationalist. Gonne was eighteen months younger than Yeats and later claimed she met the poet as a "paint-stained art student.’’ Gonne had admired "The Isle of Statues" and sought out his acquaintance. Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner, and she had a significant and lasting effect on his poetry and his life thereafter.
- In the earlier part of his life, Yeats was a member of the primitive IRA, desperate to return to an independent Irish state. Indeed, he held these views throughout his life as he associated himself with other key political figures such as Eva Gore Booth. Due to the escalating tension of the political scene, Yeats distanced himself from the core political activism in the midst of the Easter Rising, even holding back his poetry inspired by the events until 1920.
- He was a Symbolist poet, in that he used allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. Yeats chose words and assembled them so that, in addition to a particular meaning, they suggest other abstract thoughts that may seem more significant and resonant.
- “Leda and the Swan” is a sonnet, a traditional fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. The structure of this sonnet is Petrarchan with a clear separation between the first eight lines (the “octave”) and the final six (the “sestet”), the dividing line being the moment of ejaculation—the “shudder in the loins.”
- Some critics have interpreted "Leda and the Swan" as an allegory for the "rape" of Ireland by its colonial masters, the British.
- In Ancient Greek mythology – and in Yeast's poem – Leda's rape is taken as an indirect a cause of war.
Leda and the Swan mythology
- The god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces, or rapes, Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta.
- According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched
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