{"id":3113,"date":"2008-05-11T01:32:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/11\/the-art-of-mihaly-zichy-1827%e2%80%931906\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T19:03:22","slug":"the-art-of-mihaly-zichy-1827-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/11\/the-art-of-mihaly-zichy-1827-1906\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Mih\u00e1ly Zichy, 1827\u20131906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e8\/Zichy_Mih\u00e1ly_A_d\u00e9mon_fegyverei.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/zichy1.jpg\" alt=\"zichy1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Triumph of the Genius of Destruction (1878).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Hungarian artist with a flair for the pandemoniac, as can be seen from this lurid anti-war painting. Zichy is also known today for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arterotismo.com\/Zichy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Love<\/em>,<\/a> a series of erotic etchings produced in the 1870s. These may or may not include the masturbating male at the end of this post, attributed to Zichy and included here for curiosity value. Masturbating women are a common sight in drawn or painted porn, men far less so unless the artists were gay. In a similar vein, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arterotismo.com\/Zichy\/z17.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hungart.euroweb.hu\/english\/z\/zichy\/muvek\/festmeny\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/zichy2.jpg\" alt=\"zichy2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Demon: sketch for The Triumph of the Genius of Destruction (1878). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/42\/Zichy_Hull\u00f3_csillagok.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/zichy3.jpg\" alt=\"zichy3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Falling stars (1879). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sosantikvarium.hu\/kep\/metszet_1457_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/zichy4.jpg\" alt=\"zichy4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Love (187?). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/30\/the-art-of-luis-ricardo-falero-1851\u20131896\/\">The art of Luis Ricardo Falero, 1851\u20131896<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/29\/the-art-of-ejaculation\/\">The art of ejaculation<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/21\/angels-4-fallen-angels\/\">Angels 4: Fallen angels<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/19\/the-art-of-vasili-vereshchagin-1842\u20131904\/\">The art of Vasili Vereshchagin, 1842\u20131904<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/11\/the-apocalyptic-art-of-francis-danby\/\">The apocalyptic art of Francis Danby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Triumph of the Genius of Destruction (1878). A Hungarian artist with a flair for the pandemoniac, as can be seen from this lurid anti-war painting. Zichy is also known today for Love, a series of erotic etchings produced in the 1870s. These may or may not include the masturbating male at the end of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/11\/the-art-of-mihaly-zichy-1827-1906\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Mih\u00e1ly Zichy, 1827\u20131906&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[2343],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","tag-francis-danby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","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=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}