Rops' Racy World: Kunsthaus Zurich Exhibit

0:00On this March 4th in Adelaide, here's what is making headlines. A new exhibition at Kunstau Zurich dives into the wild world of Belgian artists, Felicia and his steamy masterpiece, Pornocrates. Painted in 1878 during a brutally hot week in Paris, it shows a blindfolded naked woman leading a pig on a leash. Rob's caught it the ruler of fornication, blending eroticism with dark fantasy in his drawings, etchings and paintings. Rob's came from money, born in 1833 in the more Belgium, to a rich industrialist's dad. He studied law, married into a fancy family, but ditched it all for art in Paris' nightlife. With his sharp goatee and Bohemian style, he illustrated for big names like Baudelaire and Berlin, shifting from realism to shocking scenes of, tintresses and lustful bourgeois men. His art packed a punch, featuring naked witches on brooms, voyers and top hats and women on phallic bikes. Even Picasso nodded to him with a cheeky sketch.

1:00Rob's lived as wildly as he painted, leaving his wife for a 30-year threesome with two sisters, fathering kids with both, yet he became parrises. Top paid illustrator by the mid-1870s. Laboratory of lust pulls from a huge Belgian collection of over 2,000 Rob's pieces, including secret albums for private male viewers, and, frontispaces for naughty novels. Curators Jonas Byer and Don Van Hiech want to show him as a top symbolist who worked with literary stars while tackling the disturbing side, without judgment. Today, Rob's risky work sells strong at auctions, seen as bold art, not just porn. He got France's Legion of Honor before dying at 65 in 1898, even tending roses in his later years. The show runs now, inviting folks to grapple with his feverish legacy. This episode is supported by our sponsor, C Details in the Description. It is a pillow that plays your podcast and music without earbuds, built for listening in bed,

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