Friday, February 04, 2005
Friday Art Pussy (and camel and seal)
Today is the second edition of Friday Pussy Blogging over at Viewing the Local Antiquities. Today's guest blogger is Eden Gardener of Just One Bite, who writes about her pussy — "a wet, moody carnivore." Hmm. And Pussy Talk continues to join in the fun as well with a baked goods recommendation. Mmm, danish!As for me, I learned a valuable lesson about Google today. You can't do an effective search with the term "pussy." However, if you search on pudendum, you actually can find a few interesting items. (Follow that link to the Sex-Lexis dictionary of sexual terms. It now has over 24,000 entries. Wow.)
By way of an aside, what is with the term camel toe? It sounds like something you wouldn't want, but… doesn't seem to be any big deal, aesthetically or otherwise. I don't get it.
Today, I'm focusing on the pussy in art. First up is an article by Jerry Saltz of The Village Voice called Pudenda Agenda. (I'm linking to it over at artnet because… well, they have better illustrations for it than The Village Voice did.) Saltz discusses the vagina etc. in art, from Courbet to Vanessa Beecroft. On the power of the pussy, Saltz writes:
"For their part, women may internalize a distaste for hair and develop a love of bareness. Some would say this is self-exploitation. But it seems to me — and I'm sure I'm not alone — that women are turning something that objectifies them into a tool of empowerment. This is consistent with lowered waistlines and bared midriffs, which may be surrogates and pointers for the pudenda below. A woman I know describes the bared-belly look as ‘a way of showing more skin without revealing more breast or being tacky.' Either way, visibility is power. The male anatomy has already taught us as much."
Speaking of art, check out the pudenda art project by Karine Hibbard of Montreal. I'm not sure what the seals and owls have to do with pussy, but Karine's project goal was to "demystify the pudenda — the external genital organs, especialy those of a woman and which signifies shame." I think my favorite is the "sneezing pudenda," although the mustache looks way too much like my great-great uncle, Bertram.
Finally, there's a woman artist in southeast England who does pudenda portraits. Sadly, in my opinion, they aren't very good ones. I mean, you really can't do any pussy justice with just a number 2 pencil on paper. The greyscale captures the pussy's unique outlines, but not the texture and definitely nothing of the color. sigh! But it's nice that she's doing them all the same.
You know, we should all get together next Friday and draw pussies! I'll bring pastels and Cray-Pas! Um… you bring the pussies?
Comments:
Thanks for those links!
DTG xxoo
Posted by DTG on 02/05/05 at 11:48 AM
PS on pussy-drawing and painting:
anyone for print-making?
The model Saira Mohan did a “body print” by applying paint to her body and pressing herself, legs spread wide, to paper. Then she turned the paper top to bottom and printed herself on it again----the mirror image “portrait” she achieved of her vulva in this way was breath-taking.
Posted by DTG on 02/05/05 at 12:00 PM
Would love to know about the picture with this post. How did she get so inflated? Saline?
Posted by bella fica on 02/07/05 at 04:42 PM
Obviously I don’t know. I assumed that it was a combination of the model’s particular anatomy and the pose-- that what she had was tipped back and compressed. I have no idea. I will say that, aside from a little dodging (lightening) and cropping in Photoshop, this is the photo as found.
Posted by Prospero on 02/07/05 at 04:52 PM
Aren’t there pussy pumps, something like penis pumps, that can plumpl a gal up like that?
DTG xxoo
Posted by on 02/08/05 at 10:46 AM
Oh, my god! She’s right! I feel so… uninformed.
Posted by Prospero on 02/08/05 at 10:19 PM
The paintings of Saira Mohan nude’s are on her website
it’s a trip
Posted by kcssb on 02/18/05 at 10:32 PM
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