The arguments about where to draw the line between art and pornography and about the place of eroticism in art are unlikely ever to be resolved. The Metropolitan Police have no doubts on this score however, having
ordered the removal of this photograph by Derrick Santini from a London Gallery. Efforts to persuade them that it was a mythological subject that had been a favourite of artists for the past 2,000 years or so cut no ice with the Met. They know filth when they see it. It’s not just porn, it’s bestiality!
As you can see from the following selection Santini’s version is on the mild side compared to the utter filth and depravity served up by some artists. Boucher (or his follower since the attribution is uncertain) gives us not just bestiality but a threesome!
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Derrick Santini, A Fool for Love, 2012
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| Michelangelo, Leda and the Swan, 1530 (copy of a lost original) |
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Leonardo, Leda and the Swan
(copy by Leda Melzi), 1508-1515 |
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| Correggio, Leda with the Swan, 1531-32 |
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| François Boucher (attributed), Leda and the Swan, 1742 |
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| Italian painting of Leda and the Swan, c.1800 |
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| Gustave Moreau, Leda and the Swan |
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| Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Leda And The Swan |
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| Paul-Prosper Tillier Leda and the Swan |
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| Nikolai Konstantinovich Kalmakov, Leda and the Swan |
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| Maurice Ferrary, Leda and the Swan, 1898-1900 |
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| Louis Icart, Leda and the Swan |
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| C.A. Holland, Leda and the Swan, 1910 |
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| Salvador Dalí, Leda Atomica, 1949 |
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