Eduard Ole 1898–1995 Woman With Child and Birds. 1952

The desire of male artists to create pictures where the ideal world is expressed by naked women, children and animals or birds in the middle of wildlife is not uncommon. In these fantasies, the male gaze is dominant, watching the whole scene from the side without entering the picture. In the case of the woman, both her eroticism and motherhood are admired: the uncovered female body is turned towards the viewer, while the child's hands reach towards the body. Such a combination of seduction and nurturing, carnality and empathy is probably one of the main ingredients of male fantasy cocktails. Birds flying high in the sky look at everything from above and add lyricism to the painting.