This blog was created to create a network of input and participation in a future performance. From an issue that throughout history and by extension the fascination created art and controversy. Women have been a fatal or otherwise. in mythology and folklore of all cultures. and occupied all areas of life manifested in all spheres of culture. The ideas that emerged in antiquity have remained until today to adapt to new times and appearing in things as current as the comic, video clips, fashion etc.
A femme fatale is a stereotyped character, usually a villain, fascinating and seductive that uses a series of maneuvers as beauty, charm and sex appeal to catch the hapless lover who is driven by an irresistible desire. Normally it takes to point of obsession and exhaustion so that is incapable of making rational decisions
. It is a translation of the phrase "Femme Fatale" deadly woman. It is usually represented as sexually insatiable. Although it is often evil, women also fatal in some stories make anti-heroine or heroines.
Currently, the archetype may be seen as a character who crosses the line between evil and goodness unscrupulous act to achieve their ends, but who has not been certain times in our lives? virtually all have been in some time fatal men and women. After all we live in an era of media manipulation in the society of the Mass Media. We manipulate and are manipulated through the picture. Is the theory of Big Brother, a book of Orson Wells, 1984
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Examples of the image of the femme fatale and extent in all areas. Add all the ideas you like, as this blog has done for that -:
Early examples are:
Lilith: Legendary Figure Judeo-Christian tradition.
Adam's first wife before Eve.
female demon who kidnaps children in their cradles by Mother night succubi
Lilith should be noted that in some respects is linked to all the mother goddesses that carry a hint of darkness, who reigned over the underworld and elements that relate to the life and death.
is depicted in the guise of a beautiful woman with long curly hair, usually redhead and sometimes winged.
Figure and legend of Lilith and all her rebellion against Adam has led some feminists to locate it as a symbol of liberation from patriarchy and women how proud and
proud In a sense it by some considered the first vampire and so admired by the gothic subculture and all those who love vampire theme.
Salome.
woman of great beauty. danced for her stepfather, who enthusiastically offered to grant him the prize he wanted. He called the instructions of his mother, the Baptist's head, which was delivered on a silver platter.
Biblical history has often been represented in painting, as it offers the possibility of including semi-naked women and exotic locales without leaving the Bible code. Some of the painters who have taken to painting the story of Salome has been Tiziano, Gustave Moreau and many others.
As regards the literary scene of note is the famous play by Oscar Wilde that premiered in Paris in 1896. In the work of Wilde. Salome feel a morbid attraction to the Baptist. Enraged by their refusal asks his stepfather to be executed. At the end of the book kiss the head of Bautista.Wilde published and released the work in France because of the prohibition in the United Kingdom to bring to the scene biblical arguments.
Wilde's work was turned into opera by Richard Strauss. This is now better known than Wilde's own work. It premiered in Dresden in 1905, and is famous for the passage of the Dance of the Seven Veils
Mythology ASTARTÉ
Astarte (Phoenician Ashtart) is the assimilation Mesopotamian Phoenician goddess known as the Sumerian Inanna, Ishtar and the Akkadians as the Israelites Astaroth. represented the cult of Mother Nature, life and fertility, and the exaltation of love and carnal pleasures. With the weather turned goddess of war and received his bloodthirsty cult devotees. She is usually depicted nude or barely covered with veils, standing on a lion. Rerencias
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the female trio set off in 1995 under the name Lolth, with Tristesse (bass and acoustic guitars, the Nemesis (guitars), KINTHIA (vocals / guitars),) and PSYCHOSLAUGHTER /. In May 1997 they recorded their first official demo entitled "Dancing In The Dark Lakes Of Evil" (Dancing in the Dark Lakes of Evil). "The music is fast and aggressive with a nightmarish atmosphere and mystical sound. Meanwhile Ribbon group changed its name Lolth A ASTARTE. In 1998 the band enters the extreme black metal scene dynamically with the official release album entitled "Doomed Dark Years" (Doomed Dark Years). " After two years of extensive work, the band gained recognition and respect of fans in major European countries. It was time to record their second opus entitled "Rise From Within." His music became more complex and atmospheric but at the same time aggressive and violent! "Rise From Within" is a work dedicated to the esoteric doctrine full of anger and hate Black Metal.
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MEDEA
In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis and the nymph Idia. Was a priestess of Hecate, which some consider his mother and is supposed to learn the principles of witchcraft along with his aunt, the sorceress Circe. So, Medea is the archetypal witch or sorceress, with certain features of shamanism.
Persephone In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek Persephone Περσεφόνη, 'which leads death ') was queen of the Underworld, the Kore (Κόρη,' daughter ') or young maiden, daughter of Demeter (ἡ Μητὴρ hê Meter, "the mother") and Zeus.
Persephone is her name in the epic literature of Greece Ionian. In other dialects was known by other names such as Persephassa or Persephatta. Homer called Persephoneia (Περσεφόνεια). The Romans had heard of it for the first time through wind and Dorian cities of Magna Grecia, where he used the dialectic variant Proserpina. Hence
in mythology Roman was called Proserpina, and as such were to become an emblematic figure of the Renaissance.
The figure of Persephone is now well known. Her story has great emotional power: an innocent maiden, the pain of a mother for the rapture and the return of her daughter. It is also frequently cited as a paradigm of myths that explain natural processes, with the decline and the return of the goddess causing the change of season.
But the Greeks also knew another face of Persephone. She was also the terrible Queen of the dead, whose name was not safe to say out loud and they referred to as 'The Maiden'.
In the Odyssey, when Odysseus travels to the underworld, refers to her as "Queen of Iron." Her central myth, even with all its emotional familiarity, was also the tacit context of the strange secrets of regeneration initiation rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which overwhelmed promised immortality to participants: an immortality in the underworld of Persephone, in a banquet heroes under his terrifying gaze (Kerenyi 1960, 1967).
previous Persephone " Greece? [Edit] Many modern scholars have argued that the cult of Persephone was a continuation of worship that is already being professed in the Neolithic or Minoan civilization. Among classicists, this thesis has been defended by Günter Zuntz (1973) and cautiously included by Walter Burkert in his definitive book The Greek religion.
With more daring, the mythologist Karl Kerenyi has identified Persephone with the nameless "mistress of the labyrinth" at Knossos.
Moreover, the hypothesis of a universal cult of Mother Earth has been under increasing criticism in recent years.
Life, death and resurrection Inspired by James Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison and modern mythologists, some researchers have labeled Persephone as a deity of life, death and resurrection
Aphrodite
Greek goddess of love and beauty. Although often referred to in modern culture as the goddess of love, it is important to note that there was love in the Christian sense or romantic, but specifically eros (physical or sexual attraction)
has numerous equivalents: Inanna in Sumerian mythology, the Syrian Astarte in Palestine, in the Etruscan Turan , Venus in Roman mythology, Aurora Ushas or Indo-European etc.
Pandora was the first woman made by order of Zeus, as part of a punishment to Epimetheus for having revealed to humans the secret of fire. Prometheus warned his brother not to accept any gift from the gods, "Ignoring his brother accepted Pandora, fell in love and married her .. Until then, mankind lived in harmony with the world, but Pandora opened the amphora containing all evil. (The term Pandora's Box instead of a jar, is a corruption of the Renaissance) to release all human misfortunes (the elderly, disease, fatigue, madness, vice, passion, etc). amphora Pandora closed just before Hope came out. The myth tries to impose on the woman's fault for all the ills of mankind. Example of a myth patriarchal society has imposed an ancient matriarchal society.
Fates are beings of Greek mythology (the Roman equivalent is the Fates or Fatos). Three Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, the "spinning", "that assigns the destination "and" inflexible ", are the personification of fate and its mission is to assign the destination beings born fortunes and misfortunes in store.'s fate was determined by a string of white wool or gold for the moments of happiness, or black wool for the moments of pain. Shakespeares this myth was inspired to create the witch appear in Macbeth. Also shown in the graphic novel by Neil Gaimann The Sandmann with the names of the three in one (because there is no one without the other)
The femme fatale became ubiquitous in Western culture in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century XIX
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emphasize their femme fatales and disturbing, long red hair and pouty lips. Often associated with allegorical images. She loved flowers. displayed in all his paintings with symbolic meaning or value in that line decorative
women are also fatal to the work of Burne Jones (characteristic of this to symbolize the feminine sensuality women are sinuous body with a snake in the hair) and William Klimt
Morris representation of nude women in his paintings, following the criteria of Art Nouveau, illustrating almost ethereal calm surrounded by flowers and gold. Sometimes playing the role of harpies. His models were usually women who belonged to the Viennese bourgeoisie, but also had an entourage of female prostitutes or humble life that served as muses. In this world of women, Klimt goes the cycle of life in all its stages.
Munch
The reflection of their sexual anxieties can be seen in his many portraits of women, alternately represented as frail, innocent victims or life-devouring vampires
Moureau
His world is full of androgynous teenagers and women fascinating and perverse: Salome, Delilah, Deyanira etc. It also shows a certain predilection for patent monstruoso.Es his interest in the East, both in the choice of topics in the decadent atmosphere of his paintings (eg Jupiter and Semele powerfully evokes the art of India). You considered a precursor of symbolism. His influence was decisive in the art of Odilon Redon
Felicien Rops
second half of the nineteenth century, has managed to cross the while keeping alive his message about the sex offender, muerte.Su women and brutally explicit work sometimes. He talks about ghosts and fantasies of a bourgeois society to belonging.
In his lithographs, etchings, drawings and watercolors portrays life with living skeletons, powerful women and cruel to man's desire, evil spirits that copulate with women in ecstasy etc.
Twentieth Century In the 20 shows the character of Betty Boop, famous for being the first cartoon character that is presented as a sexual woman. Wore short dress and liguero.Tenia chest and showed prominent cleavage. In his cartoons were trying to spy on other characters while changing
Associated with the fashions of the 20 in the old American slang used to be called women abbreviation fatal vamps vampire (vampire), used because these characters extracted the lives of their victims. Not necessarily drinking their blood. but through sexual and economic exploitation.
With the introduction of black cinema in the 40 fatal women began to flourish in pop culture. Frida Kahlo
since childhood is characterized by a profound sense of independence and rebellion against social and moral ordinary habits, moved by the passion and sensuality. Proud of her Mexican identity and cultural tradition was faced with the recent penetration of American customs. All this mixed with a quirky sense of humor. His life was marked by physical suffering.
The photograph was a key element in his life, especially in their formative years. Granddaughter and daughter of photographers, learned to pose early. Aware of the power of suggestion of the photographic medium used it to define its public image and forge their own legend. Frida has become an icon that has lasted until today. Examples include graffiti found on the streets with her face or editing limited Converse brand, launched last year to mark the centenary of his nacimiento.En they appear fragments of the work and original portraits of the painter. With this brand stays true to its motto "With art can converse running. "
Shermann Cindy's work led to the brilliant revival of the staged photograph at the end of the decade of the 1977 setenta.En succeeded in conquering a vast audience with her Untitled Film Stills, 69 black and white footage of small format showing the artist in different female roles which vaguely resemble the film heroines of Hollywood movies from the 50 .. The series ponia limited on the mat and interchangeable male stereotypes about femininity and their duplication media through film and television.
Over the following decades the artist develops a complex set of roles of disturbing intensity that raises different contexts, the question of the determination of female identity in society.
In the 80 and 90 representations of violence and sexuality (for which he served in various masks and prosthetics). Gave rise to no little controversy .. The aesthetic Feist, advocated by Shermann was intensified with a series of photographs pictorial accents marked in those who collected as a still life materials such as feces, mucus, blood, prosthetic penis, in a foreshadowing of contemporary plagues like AIDS or anorexia. Elmer Batters
1919-1997 Known for its erotic images fetish type, where the stockings, legs and feet of their models is central.
Before seeing as this concept is now in Western culture we see this concept in other cultures
India
Goddess Kali His name looks like a female version of the Sanskrit word kala (meaning darkness) also means black woman.
The best known legend that an army of demons led by the giant demon attacked the gods and they sought help from Kali was the only one capable of beating them. When victory came against the giants of joy danced so furiously, that the earth shook under his weight. Before the plea the gods Shiva asked him to forgo his attitude, but as a result of their sense of excitement did not recognize him, he lay down the same between the muertos.Ella continued dancing until he felt under his feet. Immediately his tongue out at the lack of respect he had made with him.
Kali has matted hair, loose black, in his neck is a necklace of skulls, is not dressed. Her skin color is blue or gray. His eyes are embodied as a common borracho.Es see holding the severed head of a demon's skin blacker than her .. She is depicted with four or eight arms Your arms represent the complete circle of creation and destruction the cosmos, which is contained within it. Shiva's involvement with Tantra and Kali's dark nature have led to becoming an important Tantric figure. Kali is the goddess of death and destruction but also of regeneration. It is terrible and bloodthirsty goddess, but also the mother who gives woman new life. at the expense of their sacrifice. In its role in Indian Tantra. Kali represents the pure feminine energy. energy which has the power of sex, sensuality and the embodiment of boundless love and embodies voraz.Kali sexual lover, the dark lunar night, which destroys the illusions and satisfies the desires .. To his followers and the coin has two sides . Death can not exist without life and vice versa "From here we make a trip to the nineties of the twentieth century to link with the character of Death of the graphic novel by Neil Gaimann The Sandmann .. The first of the Eternals, apart She is death, but not that of the Scythe, but a character so charming, it makes you feel like dying fall. Gaimann Neil says there is a story told that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that to see (or see) finally you fall in love so much and so fast that your soul will come from the eyes, she actually visits you, you will feel well and asks you with a beautiful smile, as you've done. Surely what this character appeals most to readers , is the idea that gives us that dying is not so bad, you have to spend one day everyone and that everyone living at the same time a whole vida.Ojo on the amulet bearing the character's neck hung key of life Ankh, from Egyptian mythology.
Who can forget the scene from the movie Indiana Jones Temple of Doom in which an evil sorcerer tore the heart of an outsider to offer it to the goddess Kali
"In the tales of Emilio Salgari the worshipers of the goddess Kali were cannibals.
Certainly there are reports that this goddess was adept gender violence. in the colonial era when the British took over India and that their ritual killings spread panic in the population well into the nineteenth. This is the Thugs or Phansingars. The Thugs danced triumphantly over the graves, like his goddess, as newly slain, were nothing more than demons which had to be sacrificed., It is assumed that in reality, was a religion masked response, a response against British imperialism. In this sense, the settlers were actually demons and what's tolerated, it was his followers. Japan
The female ninjas called Kunoichi, represented on countless occasions, are famous and legendary, being trained in methods of the fatal women using their sexuality with the same fluency that their deadly skills to kill There .. a saying in Japan that no Castillo was sufficiently protected so they could enter a Kunoichi. They have the delicacy of a Geisha and the cruel skills of a Ninja.
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Orland has always remained a central theme social and cultural pressure towards women. His photographic work began in 1964 and 65.
His repertoire encompasses forms of expression: photography, video, installation, performance and sculpture.
In the early nineties - made in the operating room was their study through a series of performances based on cosmetic surgery, transforming their own facial features and treating your body as its main frame of expression. Your Self-Hibridizations
are made in accordance with the Standard of the beauty of non-Western cultures are known for their rites and rituals . To produce this work relies on advances in technology, creating a computer image, which merges his face with masks and statues representing men and women of African and pre-Columbian cultures. Explore the canons of beauty from other men and women culturas.Orlan rides his body in a field of virtual reality, as cosmetic surgery becomes an anthropological effort.
The beauty comes in his subjective meaning.
Clips. Frozen Madonna made by Chris Cunningham
Comics English artist Luis Royo
noted for its erotic-fantasy illustrations, whether mechanical dyes or rather epic to say somehow.
addition to his independent works, has worked in game design, cover art films like Blade Runner, music albums such as "Fallen Angel" Avalanch and with album covers from groups like the Gothic-Black Methal Graveworm, comic book covers, covers computer games as Tzar and Tarot Cards.
Especially famous are his illustrations of Julie Strain (Actress) for the covers of the animated movie Heavy Metal. Music
This actress Juliette Lewis, 34 actress best known for films like Cape Fear has become what I always wanted to be a rock star. With his deep voice and a little hoarse but sexy and sensual. His large, expressive eyes (between sweet and dangerous). On scenario is a wild animal, sweating, spitting, jumping, leads etc. A female version of Iggy Pop. Jump from the stage and surf among the masses. As she reveals, "I use my body to turn the call between the public and the Rock and Roll "The Donnas
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an example the recently deceased rock band Hell's Bitches
Film
Thurmann Umma
in such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2 (can relate to her character and that of other women who appear to kuniochis or Japanese ninjas)
Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider (Femme Fatale heroin), Girl, Interrupted (anti-heroine), Olimpia's character in the film Alexander the Great.