Ok Enough about Hockey
Yes... I know there are no faithful blog readers so this really just wasted bytes but I shall persevere. Maybe my blog is too much hockey and not enough about ideas... - so we shall move on to art appreciation. Yes the hockeyman loves art but has no appreciation for it...
however, inorder to satify both sides- the intellectuals who may troll here really looking for ideas and the piggish men who just troll I give you Earth Water.
The Union of Earth and Water.painted by Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) in 1618... which would have made him 41... close enough to the hockeymans 47 .. What strikes me is the definition of beauty then and now.
The guy with the Trident is supposed to be Neptune and the woman holding the horn of plenty is the Cybele the mother of the gods. She is earth and he is water... The woman is beautiful yet has smaller breasts and more middle than current glamour magazines might define it today. Her legs are not thin and spindly. Her feet are - lets face it--- well grounded .. The men are muscular and hairy and would be attractive god like today. The man in the water with the hair would have women and gay men falling all over him.. Even the babies are shirleytemplish classic beauties ..
It seems the public definiton for women has changed but the men are the same. But what man would not find that female form alluring? Isn' that what would really attract men who are in their forties...Makes you wonder.... Beauty is not fair
posted by hockeyman @ 7:28 PM
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