{"id":7368,"date":"2010-06-29T03:04:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T02:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2010-06-29T03:04:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T02:04:51","slug":"centaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/29\/centaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Centaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidtrullo.com\/pandemonium_eng.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/centaur1.jpg\" alt=\"centaur1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Elatus from Pandaemonium I (Centaurs) <\/em><em>(2010) <\/em><em>by David Trullo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidtrullo.com\/pandemonium_eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">a series of centaur portraits<\/a> by Spanish artist David Trullo. Placing characters from Classical mythology in contemporary settings makes a change. The title <em>Pandaemonium I<\/em> implies further series so I&#8217;m curious to see how Trullo follows these.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianweb.org\/decadence\/painting\/bocklin\/4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/centaur2.jpg\" alt=\"centaur2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Battling Centaurs (1873) by Arnold B\u00f6cklin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Centaurs had a flush of popularity in Germanic art of the 19th century; <a href=\"http:\/\/franz_von_stuck.tripod.com\/AmazonandCentaur.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Franz Stuck<\/a> painted them a number of times and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/23\/jugend-magazine-revisited\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Jugend<\/em> magazine<\/a> is littered with many often grotesque representations. I&#8217;ve never seen an explanation for this resurgence of interest. Is it because a man\/horse hybrid is a potent symbol of masculine power? Arnold B\u00f6cklin&#8217;s painting is one of the better examples and suits its title more than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Centaurs_(Michelangelo)\" target=\"_blank\">Michelangelo&#8217;s famous sculpture<\/a> in which the hybrids are lost in a tangle of writhing bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/01\/mermaids\/\">Mermaids<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/12\/the-masks-of-medusa\/\">The Masks of Medusa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elatus from Pandaemonium I (Centaurs) (2010) by David Trullo. One of a series of centaur portraits by Spanish artist David Trullo. Placing characters from Classical mythology in contemporary settings makes a change. The title Pandaemonium I implies further series so I&#8217;m curious to see how Trullo follows these. Battling Centaurs (1873) by Arnold B\u00f6cklin. Centaurs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/29\/centaurs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Centaurs&#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":[2,44,12,41,45],"tags":[267,1453,1454,199,522],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-photography","category-sculpture","category-symbolists","tag-arnold-bocklin","tag-david-trullo","tag-franz-stuck","tag-jugend","tag-michelangelo-artist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sq7rV-centaurs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","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=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}