Nine out of ten of those paintings
of Susanna and the Elders
are Bible porn.
Softcore porn, but still
exploitative porn. Art for
the eyes, not for the soul.
The audience are Peeping Toms
as much as the lecherous Elders
drooling at the back.
Imagine that, softcore porn
hanging on a side-altar
in your local church,
or later, in a
fashionable salon
of some respectable matron.
Only when the artist
(like Artemisia Gentileschi)
shows us Susanna's distress,
making it the subject instead
of her nudity, do they become more
high art than Bible porn.
08.03.2023
#Poem #Poems #Poetry #Verse
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