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Friends & Enemies. In light-hearted pre-War Vienna, which boasted of its sexual freedom, Freud was jeered at and shunned. Prudish physicians complained that he made too much of sex, that he destroyed beautiful illusions (such as the innocence of childhood), that he invaded his patients' privacy...
...Famous for his hatred of varnish, Directo van Puyvelde has cleaned up many a Flemish masterpiece, disclosed last Christmas on nymph's leg and one baby's bottom in picture by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) which had been painted over in prudish generations. "Patina," he snorted, "used to be bought by the Belgian State for 100 francs a bottle. . . . It's called that 'Old Gold' tone. Pfui...
...women and children in a mass suicide against the Dutch guns. The men, armed only with swords, go down like tenpins. The women kill their children, then themselves. This invincible heroism, says Author Baum, taught the Dutch to rule the conquered Balinese with a loose rein. One thing the prudish Dutchmen did insist on: that the satiny brown-skinned Balinese women cover their beautiful breasts...
...drawings. One of these, it is known, was a picture of a handsome young man embracing a hideous crone. The surviving drawings include a superb series of anatomical studies of men, not one of a woman. Kenneth Clark indicates, does not say, that someone in the prudish, provincial court of George III found the 180 in bad taste...
Watteau was a gloomy neurotic who never married, never stayed long in one place, snubbed his friends, had neither morals nor vices, distrusted himself and his painting and worked stupendously. In 1716 the Italian comedians whom Louis XIV's prudish mistress, Maintenon, had banished 19 years before, were called back to France, and Watteau caught the vogue for them by painting Le Mezzetin...