Sewellisms # 17: On drawing
‘it is in drawing that the sperm penetrates the egg, so to speak, and the conception of a work of art begins (it is tempting to suppose that pen, pencil and penis come from the same root, but they do not)’
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Brian Sewell, ‘Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings’, Evening Standard, 22 April 2010, <http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23827227-italian-renaissance-drawings-on-display-at-british-museum.do>.
AW: Phallocentric much?
On Botticelli’s Allegory of Abundance:
‘Her movement thrusts the diaphanous stuff of her dress against her legs and into her crotch but above it is bundled as wrapping for a belly, waist and breasts that, strung about with tapes, seem far less real than those of Pollaiuolo’s Eve — are they invention, rather than observation, welded to the figure of a boy? Can she have been, with her face and feet, a boy? Perhaps a rather bewildered boy, slack-jawed and open-mouthed.’
AW: Hmm. Fantasising much?
