“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
A small chromolithographed copy from the Riijksmuseum hangs in my dining room, believe it or not.
The workmanship on this masterpiece is stupendous, but I've always wondered why Rembrandt painted the guy dressed in white on the right at the front with his big black DICK hanging out? It amazed me that it ever go past the censors. I think it's embarrassing.
The placement on the canvas of the object in question leaves little doubt in my mind that a none-too-subtle allusion to male potency was fully intended by the master.
A small chromolithographed copy from the Riijksmuseum hangs in my dining room, believe it or not.
ReplyDeleteThe workmanship on this masterpiece is stupendous, but I've always wondered why Rembrandt painted the guy dressed in white on the right at the front with his big black DICK hanging out? It amazed me that it ever go past the censors. I think it's embarrassing.
Don't you too think it's odd as well as untoward?
??? the spear?
ReplyDeleteForgive me, but I have a skilled, highly cultivated DIRTY MIND.
ReplyDeleteLife's much more fun that way.
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Besides, isn't a spear a symbol of or substitue for a powerful, erect phallus?
ReplyDeleteThe placement on the canvas of the object in question leaves little doubt in my mind that a none-too-subtle allusion to male potency was fully intended by the master.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt...
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