Tadé Styka - Leda and the Swan (1913)
21d 16h ago by lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/SnokenKeekaGuard in visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com from lemmy.dbzer0.com
Beautiful Art or Artist’s thinly disguised fetishisation
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
Thanks! I remembered the Greek gods kinda banging everyone and often as non humans but completely missed that this was Helen's lineage.
Yeah it was just a joke about artists being kinky :)
and Greeks more than them
Yep and never in any of my classics courses did I go "I should spend tens of hours creating my rendition of them fucking."
I wouldn't call this disguised.
They probably thought you were taking the piss rather than referencing actual historical smut art
Reminds me of Possession by Zulawski
Do Swans have the corkscrew dicks that ducks are famous for? Would explain the chick's grin.
I'm not gonna google that 😭