Philippe Mercier, French
“Yo, Odysseus. I Know You’ve Been at Sea For 20 Years, But Try To Act Like You’ve Seen a Boob Before,” Date Unknown
Oil on canvas
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/// Philippe Mercier’s painting, “The Drawing
Lesson,” has viewers hemming and hawing.
The same pretty girl’s face is
drawn in two different places.
Was a male model fired for pawing?
/// The plume-helmeted figure we see
should be masculine, yet he’s a she,
with rouged beardless cheeks and
a girl’s delicate hand.
What Greek myth could this possibly be?
/// Crouching soldier’s left hand, fingers splayed,
echos how the girl’s hand is portrayed.
That she’s so closely viewed
while she’s partially nude
might explain why a switch had been made.
/// There’s no hint that a lustful urge stirs
in this soldier when “fallout” occurs.
I don’t think that “he” cares
what the half-bare girl wears,
(“he” may have a bust bigger than hers).