A PENNY FOR GUY'S THOUGHTS..Byline: Miranda Sawyer Miranda Sawyer is an English journalist and broadcaster. She grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire with her brother Toby, an actor best known for his part in the short-lived revival of Crossroads, and took a degree in Jurisprudence at Pembroke College, Oxford. FANCY yourself as a bit of an art connoisseur? Got 22 grand to spare? Then why not put in a bid for the funniest painting out there, Peter Howson's picture of Madonna and Guy. Have you seen it? It's just brilliant. The Scottish artist is famed for rugged, macho representations of working men. Strong-jawed steel-workers set against a lowering Highland sky, that sort of thing. You know Guy, with his kiltwearing, Celtic pretensions, commissioned it. But he could never have imagined what Howson would come up with. I keep going back to it and it still makes me laugh. Lady Madonna is dominant: reclining naked, with all the come-hither appeal of a nude, transsexual trans·sex·u·al n. A person who strongly identifies with the opposite gender and who chooses to live as a member of the opposite gender or to become one by surgery. adj. 1. Of or relating to such a person. 2. welder. Guy, disguised as Mike Tyson in a mood, tentatively tries to get her attention. In the background, is an unmistakably phallic phallic /phal·lic/ (-ik) pertaining to or resembling a phallus. phal·lic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling a phallus. 2. silhouette of a tower-block, a representation of working class manliness Guy can never, ever attain. You wonder just how vile the Ritchies were to Howson for him to paint such a thing. And where on earth did they hang it? |
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