52. Arthur Boyd, Leda and the Swan.
Bendigo Art Gallery
The description reads that it's 'enamel on steel', which may be correct, but I'm thinking it would be better described as 'enamel on a fridge'. The fridge itself being the classic Kelvinator Magic Cycle, and thus perfectly appropriate for the retelling of an essential strand of Greek mythology, but leaving me wondering if the gallery staff leave the door slightly ajar each evening to stop the inevitable mould growing on the inside.
And I could easily enough bore everyone within earshot of the historical implications of the story of Leda and the swan, the swan being Zeus in his swan form, and his seduction/rape of Leda, which lead to the birth of two children, one of whom was named Clytemnestra who eventually became the wife of Agamemnon, the other become known Helen of Troy, the eventual wife of Menelaus, and whose seduction/rape by Paris leading to the ten year Trojan War, being the event which split the known world into the concepts of East and West for the first time, a splitting from which it's never really recovered.
If there was a beer in the fridge then I might continue, perhaps expanding on some of the metaphorical implications of the myth, but I suspect there's not, so I won't. |