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And why is it Oscar Wilde’s Salome?

>> No.22064062

>>22064003
Why were Pre-Raphaelite niggas obsessed with Salome?

>> No.22064101

>>22064062
It was a story that centered around themes of sexuality and death, the two biggest themes of decadent art and literature. It also featured a femme fatale, another obsession of the aesthetes and decadents.

>> No.22064107

>>22064062
>Why were Pre-Raphaelite niggas obsessed with Salome?
Which ones? Wilde or Audrey Beardsley weren't Pre-Raphaealites if that's what you mean.

>> No.22064108

>>22064107
Aubrey*

>> No.22064152

>>22064107
I thought Bonnaud and Moreau were art of that movement.

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>>22064062
The Victorian era and is completely saturated with motives and imagery of femdom, and Salome is an archetypical instance of this dynamic. Sexual repression in one of the things that may lead to a lack of sexual agency, and a lack of sexual agency invariably leads to wishes of being dominated by a stronger will. Hence why most women are submissive, and why men in sexually repressive socities are more fascinated by a submissive dynamic.

Pic related: this is what Nietzsche had in mind when he told you to remember the whip when going to the women. And of course she was named Salome. Uncannily perfect.

>> No.22064212

>>22064152
Bonnaud was academic, Moreau was a symbolist. Besides, Pre-Raphaelites were a British movement (Some foreigner were inspired by their work years later but most of them still worked in Britain).