octopus

[Daniel Cape]

Let us not forget Hokusai's 1820 Dream of the Fisherman's Wife:
http://eclecticaerotica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hokusai-octopus.jpg

2009/9/18 Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>:
> ...In Gustav Klimt's lost painting Jurisprudence, a gigantic octopus
> threatens to envelop humanity. When it was painted in the first few years of
> the 20th century, this was seen by outraged Austrians as a satire on the
> police, nicknamed "polyps"; but it might just as easily be an image of the
> all-embracing tentacles of the empire in whose last days Klimt was working.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/sep/17/habsburg-art-titian-moctezuma
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