{"id":1173,"date":"2006-12-20T01:41:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T01:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2008-07-19T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T19:27:13","slug":"angels-3-a-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/20\/angels-3-a-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels 3: A diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday Eroom Nala mentioned my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/fallenangel.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fallen Angel<\/em><\/a> picture in one of the comments for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/18\/angels-1-the-angel-of-history-and-sensual-metaphysics\/\">the first angel posting<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the picture in question (from 2004).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/fallenangel.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/fallen_angel.jpg\" alt=\"fallen_angel.jpg\" id=\"image1170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned earlier, this was based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=16463\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jeune homme assis au bord de la mer<\/em> (<em>Young Man Sitting by the Seashore<\/em>, 1836)<\/a>, the most well-known painting by Jean Hippolyte Flandrin (1809\u20131864). In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/02\/16\/evolution-of-an-icon\/\">a posting back in February<\/a> I wrote about how this painting has become something of a gay icon over 170 years, with increasing numbers of artists and photographers working their own variations on the pose. As far as I was aware, I was the only person to have tried adding wings to the figure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=16463\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/flandrin.jpg\" alt=\"flandrin.jpg\" id=\"image1171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now today I run across a great gallery of photographs by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/josemanchado\/sesion_desnudos_ruben\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Manchado<\/a> who has his rather gorgeous model, Reuben, adopt the same pose then gives him a set of abstract wings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/josemanchado\/sesion_desnudos_ruben\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/manchado.jpg\" alt=\"manchado.jpg\" id=\"image1172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manchado&#8217;s other photographs are well worth a look. He also adds more realistic wings to a female model but since we&#8217;re concerning ourselves with male angels this week I&#8217;ll leave you to look for her.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-recurrent-pose-archive\/\">The recurrent pose archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday Eroom Nala mentioned my Fallen Angel picture in one of the comments for the first angel posting. Here&#8217;s the picture in question (from 2004). As I mentioned earlier, this was based on Jeune homme assis au bord de la mer (Young Man Sitting by the Seashore, 1836), the most well-known painting by Jean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/20\/angels-3-a-diversion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Angels 3: A diversion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,44,12],"tags":[1183],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","category-painting","category-photography","tag-jean-hippolyte-flandrin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-iV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}