Comments | snowgrouse: Art Nouveaugasm

snowgrouse

Art Nouveaugasm

Mar 29, 2012 23:04

Fucking WAILING at BBC Four's Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau. WAILING. The presenter dude can get a bit annoying and he makes some weird leaps of logic (he overdoes the dark and sexy stuff, I think, to the point where it's pretty groan-inducing and I'm going "oh ffs, keep it in your pants" and also he can't pronounce "Mucha") but ( Read more... )

arty-farty, telly, art nouveau

Comments 4

cavefelem March 30 2012, 06:36:37 UTC

Hooray, you're back in business as usual. :D

snowgrouse March 30 2012, 07:27:46 UTC

Still dizzy from blood loss but OMG ART NOUVEAU *windmilling arms* Check out the interiors of this place! I OFFICIALLY LIVE THERE NOW, OK?

jhall1 March 30 2012, 09:27:53 UTC

I missed the first episode, but I saw the second one last night and greatly enjoyed it. While watching it I was thinking that you would love it, and now I find that you've posted about part one. You're right about the presenter, though. He can be very annoying. He shouldn't be a distraction from what one is seeing or from what the experts that he talks to are saying, but occasionally he is.

snowgrouse March 30 2012, 09:44:50 UTC

He's not very professional in that he offers his own opinions to the experts and then asks them to confirm them. He keeps going "So wouldn't this mean this and this?" and then expects the experts to nod and barely lets them voice their own ideas, which is annoying. And he overemphasises the sexy stuff, I think, because I haven't really ever seen Mucha's women as "hussies" (which was a bit offensive, to be honest)--some of them are sensual, but the one he called a hussy didn't even look particularily flirty. Mucha himself was very spiritual and his naked women had more in common with serene angels and goddesses and playful nature spirits and girl-children rather than femmes fatales. It's odd, because you could find tons of femmes fatales in other Nouveau artists' works (and Symbolists were way more sexual and raunchy than Nouveau artists--as were many Impressionists). Depictions of naked women are as old as art itself, and Nouveau hardly stands out in that respect as particularily decadent or naughty (the ladies are often quite ( ... )