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Tadé Styka - Leda and the Swan (1913) (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by [M] to c/visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Beautiful Art or Artist’s thinly disguised fetishisation

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    it's a scene from Greek mythology and the subject of several paintings. the swan is Zeus in disguise. Leda later laid an egg, and from it hatched Helen of Troy

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    • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Do Swans have the corkscrew dicks that ducks are famous for? Would explain the chick's grin.

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