A painting by Frederic Leighton:
It starts off looking like a restful repose, doesn’t it?
But then when you gaze longer, you start to notice things: the nipple, of course, but also that weird left leg (can it come from the same hip?), and that weird right wrist. And then the ocean. Is that a volcano?
Leighton maintained that the woman’s circular pose originated with a tired model in his studio, but it is not a position that any person could hold for long…
That green blob in the lower left: Edvard Munch’s The Scream was created two years earlier, in 1893. Could this possibly have been a reference to it?
Flaming June triumphed at exhibition in 1895, but its moment in the sun was short. Leighton’s death the following year heralded the end of an era.
“Flaming June”?
Gives new (double) meaning to “Pride Month”
Don’t talk about June!
It makes me bust out all over!
Fred also believed that all UFO’s
are Billionaires from other planets.
If there are billionaires on other planets, how do they cash their checks?
There’s a special docking port in the Grand Caymans just for them called The Space Crypto Exchange.
Your wife called. On your way home she wants you to stop at Wolf 359 and pick up a rotisseried Barlenflabber for dinner.
You just made me Google Barlenflabber and I lost about 20 seconds of my valuable time … 😢
I was right in the middle of writing a tune called…’Gumdrops and Jellybeans’
Where da nekkid chicks at?
Take a left at Greenland.
A Flaming June sounds like the kind of drink served at sorority houses and yacht clubs.
Drink enough of them and the ladies can be found posed as in the picture.