Now I know some of you may not think that architecture is art. However, we studied such things in my art history class last semester, and I therefore considered it an art form. If you disagree, feel free to write a blog debating against me. The subject of THIS blog, though, is not whether or not it’s art; it’s about the phallic symbols within that art.
For thousands of years, buildings and statues have been created in the shape of an obelisk—the phallic symbol of the Egyptian Sun God, Osiris. Essentially, they look like giant penises (peni?). I included a picture of some examples. From left to right, the buildings are the Washington Monument in D.C., the Place de Concorde in Paris, and the Eifel Tower.
These buildings are symbolic of power and strength. It is almost like somebody was compensating for something. The bigger the phallus, the more potent your power is, I guess? To me this seems utterly ridiculous, since the vagina is much more powerful than the penis. After all, vaginas expand and contract to produce life itself, where as a penis is so puny it can get bent in half or broken just from one wrong move.
My question to everyone is this, Why are we not commemorating the female body in our architecture? I mean, the closest we get is half-naked women on the prows of ships…
I like your idea, lets think of ways to get female related statues and buildings ! good article !
ReplyDeleteFeminists are truely retarded. LMAO
ReplyDeleteOf course there's reference to the feminine or rather womb principle which is represented in sacred or meaningful "spaces", such as a room, home, sanctum, or vessels such as ships and even cars or lands and fields for agriculture. The feminine principal is based on absence or negation, so obviously structures and objects related to the feminine are not going to be "conspicuous" per se just as the difference between male and female genitalia.
ReplyDeletePeople see the mountains more often than valleys but mountains and valleys exist together as you can't have one without the other. Moreover, crops are grown and habitations ideally occupy valleys rather than mountains.
People should stop viewing the masculine and feminine as competing principles but rather as complementary ones because the basis of sex is DIFFERENCE, so don't expect the feminine to resemble the masculine or stupidly try hard to be masculine. That's just pure idiocy!