Comments on: The Martyr Of Solway https://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/ Taking Pleasure In The Beauty Of Restrained Women Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:47:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: don1 https://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11275 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:47:39 +0000 http://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11275 I recall reading of this incident in ‘Fox’s Book of Martyrs’ She was murdered along with an older woman, also called Margaret. both died bravely.
As Jim Elliot [an USA Christian Missionary/martyr in Ecuador] said, ‘He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep for something that he cannot lose.’

]]> By: M.Yu https://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11269 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:41:20 +0000 http://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11269 Nice work. I am linking to it. I am always on the look out for this type of thing.
Thanks!

]]> By: dncarac https://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11264 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:40:03 +0000 http://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11264 The “feel” of the piece changes from the under-piece to the finished piece. In the finished piece, she’s looking demurly downward and her mouth is more relaxed. In the under-piece, she’s looking to the right – toward her accusers, maybe?? toward the incoming tide?? And her mouth is drawn up into a bit of a pout. In the final piece, she looks sad and submissive. In the under-piece she’s a bit more defiant.

Not an artist or art critic – just things I noticed.

DNC

]]> By: Rope Guy https://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11259 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:16:35 +0000 http://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11259 Whoops, on reading back my response “sounds” kinda hostile. Complete accident on my part, I’m sorry Cedric. I really do appreciate your input and perspective on how art is created.

It’s just that I wanted to be clear, I was repeating what the gallery says, not leaping to the Bowdlerization conclusion on my own. Of course they may indeed be completely full of shit.

]]> By: Rope Guy https://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11257 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:31:48 +0000 http://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11257 Cedric, it’s not an assumption, at least not on my part. Rather, it’s the assertion of the Walker Gallery where the picture hangs. I don’t know their reputation in the art world, but usually the art community is very stuffy about this stuff, so I’m assuming they wouldn’t say it unless it was based on scholarship or known history of the piece. The painting isn’t that old, it’s unlikely the Bowdlerization isn’t documented, if that’s indeed what happened.

]]> By: Cedrictheblack https://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11255 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:00:45 +0000 http://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11255 I think the assumption of victorian tampering might be a touch premature . . .an oil painter works in layers, and starting with a basic form, which appears as a ‘nude’ in the x-ray is a standard practice. The artist also would have been working with the heavier base coat in setting out the figure, so it’s not surprising that it would show up. Of course, that could be the artisit’s original sketch on the canvas done to give perspective, etc. The charcoal would show up better under the x-ray.

]]> By: Rope Guy https://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11253 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:50:51 +0000 http://www.bondageblog.com/2008/02/22/the-martyr-of-solway/#comment-11253 Whoopsie!

Fixed now.

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