Ann's Venus photo is very clever in rather the same way as Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe.
In the painting the nude's pose is based, like the statue, on the classical image of Venus / Aphrodite surprised while bathing, and modestly hiding her nakedness. Part of the shock value of Manet's painting was that she is deliberately looking the viewer (normally male) in the eye, confronting him and in part appropriating his gaze, which represents power. http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search.html?no_cache=1&zoom=1&tx_damzoom_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=4003 Ann's Venus is even naughtier in apparently looking at something that 'nice girls' are not supposed to look at... B > On 29 Dec 2013, at 18:09, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh, so funny, Ann. Forklift driver is an absolute hoot! > >> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >> >> http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Stuff-to-show-PDML-for-various/4796533_2JPwqh >> >> ann >> >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
