In times of old, The Furies protected Mother Right. If a mother (or any woman) was harmed, The Furies swooped down and took their vengeance. They were one of the last vestiges of a world that existed before the patriarchy. When we feel righteous anger, it is The Furies who are calling out to us to make what is wrong right again.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Potato, Tomato, Monet, Manet 

I really do know the difference. I knew it was Manet who painted Olympia. (In the Home Body post I said Monet painted Olympia. Late night typo.) Doth I protest too much? To my knowledge, Monet never painted a nude. Goya painted the Naked Maja which is similar to Olympia. Goya also painted theClothed Maja. That's not as strange as it sounds—well, it sounded strange to me, at first, but he was known for his ability to put "drapery" on previously naked religious figures. (Ashcroft would have loved him.) So I guess he applied that skill to his own work.

Posted by: Kim Antieau / 11/30/2004 05:36:00 PM
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