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NYC-based artist Sarah Meyohas creates infinite tunnels that are created with facing mirrors set against pastel backdrops. Smoke, flowers, and finger tips border the reflective surfaces, creating dream-like environments that pull the viewer deep into the image’s frame. 

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Antonio Canova (1757-1822) – Aphrodite et Adonis

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The makers of Tangled aimed to model the look of the film, and used artistic Rococo paintings, such as The Swing (Les Hasards Heureux de l'Escarpolette) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, to create a rich and lush world akin to an oil painting, as you can see from the concept art. Disney must like The Swing a lot, since a painting clearly inspired by it also shows up in Frozen.

The thing aboutthis charming, exquisite, influential painting, though?

It’s a boudoir painting. At the time it was created it was, essentially, a dirty mag to hang on the wall. It’s a painting that was considered so rude and titillating by the standards not only of its own time but that of succeeding generations that, when it was offered to the Louvre in 1865, they turned it down. Let me repeat that: the Louvre turned down this painting because it was considered too rude.

The Swing was commissioned by the guy depicted in the bottom left hand corner, a French courtier who wanted a picture of his mistress being pushed on a swing by a bishop. Fragonard balked at that last specification, and instead depicted the pusher as an amiable old man who’s clearly being cuckolded by his wife and her secret lover.

And why is it so rude? Look at the painting again. Look at the guy hiding in the shrubbery. Note that his gaze is directed right up the lady’s dress, a view which she has made infinitely more delightful by kicking upwards with one leg. Bear in mind that eighteenth century women didn’t wear underwear of any sort.

Whatsoever.

(Also, a shoe being kicked off was a sign of lost chastity, plus there’s a symbolic statue of Cupid with his finger on his lips. Extremely raunchy stuff by Rococo standards.) 

Also note that Disney left out the peeping toms in their versions, but choose to keep the leg raise and the shoe kick in.

Huh.

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