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Penguin Island

BOOK III
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Future painters will not restrain themselves as does this one to portraying on the side of a wall or on a wooden panel the cursed matter of which our bodies are formed; they will celebrate and glorify it.

They will clothe their figures with dangerous appearances of flesh, and these figures will seem like real persons.

Their bodies will be seen; their forms will appear through their clothing.

St.Magdalen will have a bosom.

St.Martha a belly, St.
Barbara hips, St.Agnes buttocks; St.Sebastian will unveil his youthful beauty, and St.George will display beneath his armour the muscular wealth of a robust virility; apostles, confessors, doctors, and God the Father himself will appear as ordinary beings like you and me; the angels will affect an equivocal, ambiguous, mysterious beauty which will trouble hearts.


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