Posted on 05/08/2012 6:23:45 AM PDT by Perdogg
The Scream gallery in Mayfair had exhibited the artwork for a month with no complaints from the public. The work is intended as modern depiction of the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan.
But a Metropolitan police officer who saw the Derrick Santini image from a bus was alarmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
ping
Here’s another one. We could have an entire thread just with various pictorals of this myth:
http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/leonardo-da-vinci/leda-and-the-swan-1.jpg
I don’t care how “classical” that is, it’s disgusting.
Looks like “Art” is subject to the lowest denomininator, just like our educational system. You have to slow things down to the pace of the slowest student.
In this case, a sculpture that a true work of art, may possibly offend someone who wishes to read into the sculpture things that were never intended, and thereby deny the general public from seeing the piece of art. We are beginning to make Victorian England seem sleazy by comparison.
Just like what used to be a picture of babies taking a bath together, is now considered pediophilia. We’ve become a society that is led, managed and punished by the lowest denominator.
Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus seduced, or raped, Leda in the form of a swan. 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. In the W.B. Yeats version, it is subtly suggested that Clytemnestra, although being the daughter of Tyndareus, has somehow been traumatised by what the swan has done to her mother (see below). 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.[1] In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.
The subject was rarely seen in the large-scale sculpture of antiquity, although a representation of Leda in sculpture has been attributed in modern times to Timotheos (compare illustration, below left); small-scale sculptures survive showing both reclining and standing poses,[2][3] in cameos and engraved gems, rings, and terracotta oil lamps. Thanks to the literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius it was a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in the Italian Renaissance.
Except that in this case the 'art' is a depiction of bestiality. The swan did in fact rape Leda...that's the muth. Zeus took the form of a swan and then raped a mortal woman that he desired.
Adds new meaning to getting “goosed”
As commneters said, and I paraphrase, better to endure the genital mutilation of 100,000 (Muslim) women than allow a photo depicting a mythical subject to stand.It’s an example of the Talibanization of Britain.
That’s really a Secret Service Agent, she talked the swan down to $30....
As commenters said, and I paraphrase, better to endure the genital mutilation of 100,000 (Muslim) women than allow a photo depicting a mythical subject to stand.It’s an example of the Talibanization of Britain.
I learned of Leda and the Swan in my Catholic High School...a mythology class....
much ado about nothing....we have much more to worry about like an IslamoMarxist _resident who wants to turn America into Kenya II.
Here is a funny image. But not as funny as yours:
Stoopit.
I guess culture and history are no longer taught.
Seems fine to me given it’s reference.
I love Corregio. He was amazing and I am not into portraits much.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.