Angel Man
I don't quite understand why I find this image so very appealing.
It's no great photo. Lousy overall composition - has it been badly cropped? Pathetically small number of pixels so fuzzy and not in a good way. It goes on ... .
Partly what I like I guess is the pose of the guy. That contrapposto introduced by the Greeks into art, particularly sculpture - one leg straight and supporting, the other bent and relaxed ...
Polykleitos' 'Doryphoros' ('Spear carrier') Front - Marble Roman copy from Pompeii after a bronze Greek original ca. 450-40 B.C.
Polykleitos' 'Doryphoros' ('Spear carrier') Back - Marble Roman copy from Pompeii after a bronze Greek original ca. 450-40 B.C.... which I played around with in the post 'Vintage Cuties: JO Dallesandro, Perseus and Poryphoros'.
I reckon my fixation has something to do with the tension between the soft fluffy wings and the firm luscious body. Between the spiritual and the erotic. I've seen a photograph of a young guy with gold wings - very hot but the feeling was not the same.
Now, there is the clearer back view ...
When this man-angel finds out where I live, breaks down the door and flies in, I'll probably ask him to keep the wings on while he forces me to have sex!
Postscript
The moment I posted about feathery angel-men I've started seeing them everywhere.
In photos of gay events ...
... for sale in catalogues (white and black)...
... and in 'X-Men The Last Stand' (with Ben Foster as Angel) ...
Guess I'd better just go out and get myself a pair - I feel seriously out of it!
...and he does have perfect legs. The kind you would find on a pedestal lasting for eternity; the kind we yearn to melt into and become one with.
ReplyDeleteThe ancient Greeks had a myth that explained the difference between the human back and front as a punishment imposed on man who, before he was separated into recto and verso, was a perfect whole.
Fluffy wings, rounded calves, solid thigh backs are clues that I feel will never lead to a full
revelation.
Just watching 'The X-Men - The Last Stand' and saw a mutant as my second my second angel-man in two days. With beautiful white feathery wings! And a great face and bod.
ReplyDeleteHave to admit that I fell for that angel-man in X-men the first time my eyes fell on him.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love that angelic butt!