Talk:Homme au bain (painting)

Back view of a bloke
His scrotum is highly significant if you are writing for sensation. In writing about the composition of the image, there are many more important parts of the body which are unmentioned, so mentioning one very small detail is out of place. In the case of a female nude, you wouldn't normally mention that her pubic region was visible. If you are going to focus on his genitals, then it needs to be done in context. The fact that his scrotum can be seen may be relevant to why the painting wasn't liked enough to receive funding.

How incredibly stuffy! What the gallery really needs is a major work by Lucian Freud ! Amandajm (talk) 01:46, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * The intent of mentioning those specifically was not to focus on them, but because the analysis that I read in doing the background research paid special attention to both. Truth be told, I wouldn't have even noticed the genitals if I hadn't read it in one of the Broude essays. Perhaps I could have added more about this, but I really only had time to summarize the analysis that I read. That analysis section in particular could be expanded quite a bit more with much of the material I read.Cmprince (talk) 23:49, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Composition
Is there an analysis of the composition of this painting available? Or has the whole focus been on its subject matter? Amandajm (talk) 01:51, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Much of the material I found was about the history of the painting from its Les XX showing to the MFA. Garb and Broude in particular offer analyses, but much of it was about the controversy surrounding it. Cmprince (talk) 23:51, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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