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Fragonard - le verrou
Identifier
006454
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The role of passion in trying to subdue the ego. Frank has attempted to show how any person's liking for dominance has a transcendental aspect to it - that by submission of the masculine in them [the intellect and dominant role], the feminine becomes more active and the feminine is the route to spiritual experience.
The picture is by Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD; Grasse, 1732 - Paris, 1806
"The bolt - By hanging this picture with another of his works not shown here - the l'Adoration des bergers , Fragonard, “by a bizarre contrast” made a picture “free and full of passion” (Lenoir, 1816. This work shows the evolution of the painter after his second voyage in Italy completed in 1774".
A description of the experience
Fragonard - Le verrou
I am weak and I am feeble
I am timid, I am meek
I am a woman who’s not able
To demand what is’t she seeks
I don’t want you to ask me
I don’t want you to plead
I don’t want polite offers
Dominance is all I need
I am someone who likes violence
I am someone who likes lust
I am someone who craves force
And strength and someone I can trust
I want vehemence when you take me
I want my clothes ripped from my frame
I want you wanting me and craving me
Not an ardour weak and lame
Show me just how much you want me
Show me just how much you care
Show me lust and love and passion
Treat me badly if you dare
I’ll be yours for all time passing
I’ll be yours forever more
If you take me with no questions
If you turn and bolt the door