c/visualarts · by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 69dTadé Styka - Leda and the Swan (1913) 54 points · 12 comments · view on lemmy.world
12 Comments
showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 11 pts · 69d
Beautiful Art or Artist’s thinly disguised fetishisation
arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 69d
it's a scene from Greek mythology and the subject of several paintings. the swan is Zeus in disguise. Leda later laid an egg, and from it hatched Helen of Troy
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 69d
Thanks! I remembered the Greek gods kinda banging everyone and often as non humans but completely missed that this was Helen's lineage.
showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 3 pts · 69d
Yeah it was just a joke about artists being kinky :)
plutopos@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 69d
and Greeks more than them
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 68d
Yep and never in any of my classics courses did I go "I should spend tens of hours creating my rendition of them fucking."
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 69d
I wouldn't call this disguised.
etherphon@piefed.world · 5 pts · 68d
smeg@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 68d
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife
etherphon@piefed.world · 2 pts · 68d
smeg@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 68d
They probably thought you were taking the piss rather than referencing actual historical
smutartetherphon@piefed.world · 2 pts · 68d
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 68d
Reminds me of Possession by Zulawski
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 68d
Do Swans have the corkscrew dicks that ducks are famous for? Would explain the chick's grin.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 68d
I'm not gonna google that 😭