Japonisme in painting: 1889-1918
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Japonisme in painting: 1889-1918
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/08/japonisme-in-painting-1889-1918/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedBouguereau/115923420273557784
#Bouguereau was not as obsessed with sex as some of his contemporaries thought he was, but neither was he a prude, and he was not above an occasional visual double entendre. The title of this painting may also be the first use of the word #thirst in the 21st-century metaphorical sense — as in "thirst trap".
Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 16 Overview, Purgatory and Paradise
A long LONG time ago in a holiday internet Photoshop contest, somebody photoshopped poor Santa into William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr painting. I love it so much:
https://www.erosblog.com/2007/12/21/santa-the-satyr/
#Santa #SantaClaus #Christmas #Nymphs #Satyr #Bouguereau #Photoshop #Holiday #Stripping #Stripped #Art
I was pretty entertained to discover that somebody went and used Photoshop to update and modernize (whilst leaving unchanged the essence of) a hairy old... Tagged: sex blogging, Christmas, femdom, nymphs and satyr, santa, santa claus, stripped, stripping, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
@SpankingBlog Eroticism?!? In a Bouguereau painting? Could such a thing be possible? Nay, nay!
https://www.erosblog.com/2003/05/12/brothers-under-the-hair/
#Bouguereau #WilliamBouguereau #NymphsAndSatyr #EroticArt #Art #FineArt
@ErosBlog This reminds me of the time I posted a William Bouguereau painting "The Flagellation of Christ" with text acknowledging its erotic sensibility. Eroticism in a Bouguereau painting? *GASP* How controversial! It truly pissed off some visitors to my porny little spanking blog who felt I was being inappropriate and mocking their savior. Many angry comments.
https://www.spankingblog.com/2006/12/24/the-most-infamous-whipping/
#Whipping #Jesus #Eroticism ##Flagellation #Christ #Porn #Bouguereau