October 29th, 2007 -- by Bacchus
Nudity In Death’s Mirror
Here’s a bit of fine art that seems appropriate for the upcoming Halloween holiday. Skeletal Death in a top hat, stripping a woman nude in public to show her that her beauty, too, is mortal? I’m not sure, but it’s just a wee bit creepy:
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I’d like to take up the challenge to comment on this “creepy” contribution. First of all, the skeletal figure has not denuded the woman, nor is it important, since there is a long tradition in the visual arts of encounters between figures of Death holding mirrors and gratuitously nude females, usually intended to underscore the Vanity of All Things (in light of Death: right on, Bacchus), while giving the morally inclined viewers an eyefull. The people in the background are going to the theater, as the word “TEATRO” on the portal indicates (making it possibly an Italian work). The period is the 1920s upwards, as the fashions and automobile suggest. It looks like an etching, an intimate medium for intimate moments, along the lines of the famous line: “Would like to come and see my etchings.” Art as the fast lane to bed.
I dunno, but Tim Burton should make a movie about it.