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The Marquise de Sade wrote volumes about his daring study of the
sphere where sensual pleasures, sex, and uncontrolled desire reign.
However, de Sade invented nothing; he just showed us ourselves. This
is, as they say, the naked truth. For the artist there are no
unsolvable mysteries, he is occupied not with moralizing, but with the
quest for beauty. In nature there is no dirty spot, only we have
introduced it in her. We have treated this "dirt" too
superficially. - Friedrich Nietzsche The image in some way reproduces
the biblical theme Susanna and the Old Men, to which artists from
different epochs showed interest – such as Rembrandt, Goya, etc. The
old men – here are, obviously, the books, that display a keen interest
in the "woman,” who reveals to them her beauty secrets. |
