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| - | :"My ''Pornocratie'' is complete. This drawing delights me. I would like to show you this beautiful naked girl, clad only in black shoes and gloves in silk, leather and velvet, her hair styled. Wearing a [[blindfold]] she walks on a marble stage, guided by a [[pig]] with a "golden tail" across a blue sky. Three loves - ancient loves - vanish in tears (...) I did this in four days in a room of blue satin, in an overheated apartment, full of different smells, where the [[opopanax]] and [[cyclamen]] gave me a slight fever conducive towards production or even towards reproduction". --Letter from Rops to [[Henri Liesse]], 1879.{{GFDL}} | + | :"My ''Pornocratie'' is complete. This drawing delights me. I would like to show you this beautiful naked girl, clad only in black shoes and gloves in silk, leather and velvet, her hair styled. Wearing a [[blindfold]] she walks on a marble stage, guided by a [[pig]] with a "golden tail" across a blue sky. Three loves - ancient loves - vanish in tears (...) I did this in four days in a room of blue satin, in an overheated apartment, full of different smells, where the [[opopanax]] and [[cyclamen]] gave me a slight fever conducive towards production or even towards reproduction". --Letter from Rops to [[Henri Liesse]], 1879. |
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Pornokrates, also known as Pornocratie, is a 1879 painting by Félicien Rops.
It depicts a blindfolded woman being led by a pig on a leash. For some the pig with the golden tail represents the image of luxury and lucre steering the woman, whose only excuse is her blindness; for others, it is the image of man, bestial and stupid, kept in check by the woman. This image of the pig, as well as those of the puppet and the pierrot are shared by many of Rops’s contemporaries.
Pornokrates heralds the advent to the art world of the contemporary woman which Rops glorified. She is characterised by her arrogance, her composure and her ruthlessness.
In a letter to his friend Henri Liesse, he described the painting:
- "My Pornocratie is complete. This drawing delights me. I would like to show you this beautiful naked girl, clad only in black shoes and gloves in silk, leather and velvet, her hair styled. Wearing a blindfold she walks on a marble stage, guided by a pig with a "golden tail" across a blue sky. Three loves - ancient loves - vanish in tears (...) I did this in four days in a room of blue satin, in an overheated apartment, full of different smells, where the opopanax and cyclamen gave me a slight fever conducive towards production or even towards reproduction". --Letter from Rops to Henri Liesse, 1879.
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