Leda and the Swan; Paul Mathias Padua, 1939
- (p114) "The landscapes gave the people and image of the world that it had long fashioned through its work, in such a way that its genius had impregnated every feature of that image."
- "As art historian Oska, the German landscape of a self-portrait of the soul, the soul expresses all its beauty only when its body has been exhausted into annihilation.
- Connection to antiquity, Woman's role to sacrifice her body which is very different from that of prostitute,
- Woman was represented as nature herself. She was the beauty of nature.. of course was a fertile as nature.
- She was shown over and over again in a state of ripeness.
- This was the body to be desired and adored, abaononded and Morning spelled out the role woman was expected to play.
- Two themes dominate the woken in a pose of expectation and the woman as mother.
- Image of devotion and cooperation,
- Woman was an object: her role was subservient,
- to be looked at,
- to be fertilized,
- her own sexuality was denied,
- Zigler wrote, our work represents our philosophy,..... Bodies are celebrated, the photo-realistic representation of perfect bodies, the sleek, perfect surface detaches body from reality..... ready for sacrifice.
- Willingness to be sacrificed for the nation was widely stressed.
- Racial pure future=sacrifice for this is the woman and this idea was building their identity.
- Their racist politics manifested in their art through representation of perfect bodies and poses.
