> Quote - For arguments sake alone consider this: You see a painting of an amazing stalion ... there may be sexual undertones in the theme ... but you don't have to see the horse's genetals to get the message across.

An image doesn't have to be blatant to be sexual!  The play of a stallions while in full gallop is sexual, as one interpolates those same muscles in play in copulation.  Mona Lisa's smile is sexual in its very enigmaticness.  And I think that Michaelangelo's David speaks for itself.  If your figures had been doing something, such as trying to decapitate each other with Laser Swords, that too would have been sexual, as sex, birth, & death are all entertwined!

Here's an example of what I'm trying to say:

Quote - Battle of Naked Men, 1465
Antonio Pollaiuolo (Italian, Florentine, 1431/32–1498)
Engraving15 1/8 x 23 3/16 in. (38.4 x 58.9 cm)
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917 (17.50.99)

Not on view   Last Updated August 9, 2013

This exceptional work, one of the earliest and most influential Italian engravings, is anomalous in many respects. It is the largest engraving of its time, and the only one signed by the Florentine artist Antonio Pollaiuolo (1431/32–1498). The Museum's impression, like other extant examples, shows the wear that resulted from long handling, examination, and appreciation.

The subject of the work has never been completely explained. Some scholars have argued that the print was meant to illustrate a mythological episode, while others have viewed it as a pattern piece, intended to demonstrate a range of poses and viewpoints for the benefit of other artists. According to yet another interpretation, the ten nude figures locked in combat may be gladiators fighting in funeral games, and the print itself may have commemorated the death of a prominent Florentine.

Pollaiuolo's apparent interest is to describe the human body in a state of urgent action, in varied poses, and from many perspectives. The figures' muscles are flexed and exaggerated beyond naturalism but nevertheless demonstrate the artist's keen understanding of anatomy. The careful pairing of fighters in complementary poses injects the violent battle with a dancelike order.

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