At first glance this statue is just a beardy guy enjoying the sunshine with a bunch of sparrows, but look closer and what the hell are all those scary little babies up to?
Weird!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Paging Herr Doktor Freud
At first glance this statue is just a beardy guy enjoying the sunshine with a bunch of sparrows, but look closer and what the hell are all those scary little babies up to?
Weird!
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perhaps the birds ate the heads?
They do seem to be lacking in the head department, do they not?
The sparrows are grooming the naked beardy guy. By the peckersful. Sated, they'll loll in his grateful shadow until they, once again, feel a peckish longing for little stones to full their gullets.
And back to macarons: a friend sent me this post from a blog, written by a woman who attended a seminar on making macarons.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/blog/2011/07/wonderful-weekend/
An example of French surrealism? Maybe someone hates putti. Or maybe someone has a collection of little heads in their apartment. Is that a sphinx on the right hand side? And which god is this?
Ms. M you made me laugh!
The Parisians have a history of stealing and hiding heads of statues.
West front of Notre Dame Cathedral:
"The King's Gallery is a line of statues of the 28 Kings of Judah and Israel, which was redesigned by Viollet-le-Duc to replace the statues destroyed during the French Revolution. The revolutionaries mistakenly believed the statues to be French kings instead of biblical kings, so they decapitated them. Some of the heads were found during a 1977 excavation nearby and are now on display at the Museum of the Middle Ages."
It doesn't explain the petit putti tetes, however.
Mmmmm … What a delicious link that is, Speedway. Now I have macaron cravings again. Fortunately I am heading into the city this morning so I'll be sure and grab some for lunch.
Not so sure about nightmares, Neetzy, but I WOULD like some of the drugs the sculptor was taking.
I'm not sure, Ms.M. He seemed at first to be Poseidon as the plinth has waves in it, but he has no trident and he has wheat ears in his headgear and a bunch of fruit. Where the sphinx and the tiny people come in is quite beyond me.
Nice research, Petrea. I think maybe this statue comes to life at night and - bored with the fruit bowl - has taken to munching the heads of the putti just as we would a chocolate Easter bunny.
Haha! Petrea, that is great research! Dive, I think you're on to something about the sculptor being in an altered state.
He must have been happily out of his gourd for a long time, Ms.M. I don't know how long it would take to chip away at a marble block and create something like this but it seems to have involved industrial quantities of recreational chemicals.
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