the new emotional blackmailer's handbook

Thursday, July 19, 2018

... drunken roman or greek satyrs and partying types ... eye-popping roman faun and satyr from a second century sarcophagus ... it's my impression that satyrs and fauns were role models for the partying lifestyle and disinhibition that the romans and the greeks aspired to in life, and that some hoped to experience more fully in their afterlives ...

... the first wall paper ... after durer's print

jacob jordaens ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satyr_and_the_Traveller

... these pictures aren't in strict chronological order, i started assembling them as a kind of random scrapbook ... i've tried shifting them into some kind of order but the blogger template has a few glitches that introduce unexpected spacings into crowded pages ... and so for instance, these drawings by domenicho tiepolo should not really have appeared here before the etchings by his father giovanni battista tiepolo ...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/339427

and neither should fragonard's bacchanals ... created late in his career ...

https://blog.mam.org/2016/12/13/from-the-collection-bacchanals-by-jean-honore-fragonard/

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/807843/vari-capricci

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/361896

castiglione ...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/335663

... i'd only belatedly thought of the dancer nijinsky

below, possibly the only todd yeager's fauns that are "fit to print" ...
todd yeager's self-admittedly homoerotic fauns clearly resonate with nijinsky's interpretation ...

who was AB ?

robert mapplethorpe's brilliant self-portrait above ...

titian below ...

in a different place and time ...

and then there was the grand anomaly, discovered belatedly by me, the prodigiously inspired and singularly uninhibited australian artist, norman lindsay ...