After the Thorma exhibition, I wandered round the really-rather-wonderful permanent collection in the National Gallery in Budapest.
A few paintings caught my attention for pervy rather than artistic reasons. There was a goodly selection of nudes, which I won’t reproduce here as The Spanking Writers isn’t that sort of site! (Do go and Google “Woman bathing”, by Karoly Lotz, though, and ponder as I did how the rather gorgeous lass in question might look over a gentleman’s knee being spanked…). But there were also a few entirely safe for work images that hinted at things that might be relevant here.
Take Munkacsy’s “Making Lint”: surely the girl was being scolded, quizzed about her misbehaviour; surely a whipping would not be far away:
Or what of Ivanyi Grunwald’s “Devotion”: you might think on first glance that she was merely religious; I suspect she could hear her sister being birched inside the house, and was praying that her own turn would be soon over:
And finally, Jozsef Csaky Maronyak’s “Pioneer congratulating grandfather”. Congratulating? I think she was hoping to persuade him not to punish her; the look in his eye suggests that he’d be having none of it:
Oh, and there was a truly gorgeous painting by Kornel Spanyik, entitled “Honeymoon” (“Mezeshetek” in Hungarian). It has to be one of the most romantic images I’ve seen. But, sadly, I can’t seem to track it down at all on Google. Damn!
Very interesting captions, Abel! I enjoyed them more than the pictures, and I enjoyed them very much!
Now, were is that dark story you promised?! 😀
The first picture also captures the fascination of the other members of the household. They clearly have a sense what is about to happen … expect for the very little girl who is much more interested in the contents of that basket.
The girl in the second picture looks very contrite. It looks like an unusual form of cornertime.
The last one doesn’t work for me … grandpa’s expression and the girl’s posture certainly fit, but the flowers and the card spoil it.