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发表于 2009-7-5 23:06:14
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补充一下原文：
I think I'll start with the Dog King for this first.
The Dog King is based on the painting, 'Napoleon On His Imperial Throne' which was painted by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in 1806. Napoleon is holding a replica of Charlemagne's sceptre in the painting. He also used the trappings of royalty to re-assert his authority, power and would commission artists to celebrate his glories. Ingres' painting was rejected by Napoleon in the end.
The Dog King's sceptre has the ornamental jewellery encrusted head of the Peacock Queen which presumably serves as the Dog King's link to her. The Dog King is wearing plain sandals instead of Napoleon's more extravagant boots while the golden laurel is replaced by a artistic crown on the Dog King's head.
The golden pillars of the throne remain, but are much more plain than Napoleon's and the Golden Imperial Eagle has been removed on the throne of the Dog King himself. Other changes of note can be seen on the other sceptre which is a golden hand instead of a white hand with two fingers and a thumb held up on Ingres' painting. The Dog King's second sceptre is strongly reminiscent of the Greek myth of King Midas who had the ability to turn anything he touched by hand into gold.
The Dog King also wears a single, glowing white glove which is a link to the cover of the Victory album, Off The Wall album glow effect as well as Jackson's message that he's always felt he was magical, otherworldly. Michael would tell Mark Ryden what he wanted included in the Dangerous painting which was then included.
One interpretation of the Dog King is that it is Michael Jackson himself - just with a different head. Spike Rabbit from Speed Demon springs to mind. The Dog King's single glove is only linked with Jackson himself. The dog's head may represent the qualities the breed specifically possesses which he or Ryden may feel reflects Jackson's own personal qualities. The fact Michael has his own Royal robe and crown adds to the idea that the Dog King is Michael Jackson himself in possible disguise to help create the mystery he wanted from Ryden.
The back rest of the Dog King's throne is basically Napooleon's throne except it's been made bigger, has a floral design inscribed and appears to have a ring of glowing 'white' lights. The gold of Napoeon's throne is still there.
In any case, the Dog King is a symbol of military and royal power - both of which Michael loves.
I'll post a bit about the Peacock Queen in a while.
As I said earlier, the Peacock Queen is more interesting than the Dog King.
Let's start off with the crown on her head. This is called the Imperial State Crown which has been remade many times due to age, wear and tear. The current design, which is the one the Peacock Queen is wearing, was made for the coronation of King George VI in 1937 by the Crown Jewellers Garrard & Co.
Her clothes are based on Queen Elizabeth the First with its extravagant ruff around her neck. The necklaces around the Peacock Queen's neck are also based on Elizabeth the First's own.
The Peacock Queen also carries a golden sceptre in her right hand which has a dog at the top. The Dog King's sceptre has the Peacock Queen's jewel encrusted head on the top of his own. Both figures are inextricably linked to each other through their sceptres, but both rule over different domains. In the Peacock Queen's left hand, we see the Sovereign's orb which is a symbol of the world/universe and the role of the Queen in protecting God's dominion on his behalf.
The Peacock Queen is seen on the cover of Dangerous after her coronation as the Imperial State Crown is worn after the coronation of Kings or Queens while the Sovereign's Orb is placed in the left hadn afterwards as well. In real life, the Queen walks out of Westminister Abbey with the Imperial State Crown on her head, sceptre in right hand and the Sovereign's Orb in her left hand. The purple of her dress is a colour associated with royalty long before the age of the British Monarch as it was very rare to find in the natural world which perfectly set the Monarch above the common man.
She also wears a single cotton white glove that doesn't glow. Michael wore a cotton glove in 1977. It appears the Peacock Queen is not quite as powerful as the Dog King judging from the lack of a glow from her own glove compared to his bright, shining glove which alludes to magical powers for him, but not for her.
But we also see two birds holding open the bottom part of the Peacock Queen's dress in the spirit of the famous fairytale, Snow White. We see mechanical cogs - is she a peacock? Machine? Bit of both?
We also see a single, long tentacle coming out from her dress and connecting to a bubble which has Adam and Eve inside. The bubble protects them from the harsh realities of the world, or evil as they are happy inside it despite the contradiction of the Peacock Queen's being. The Peacock Queen is at once living and not living. She is a ruler and yet not the one with magical powers. The Peacock Queen represents life and life giving force for it is her industry which keeps Adam and Eve alive in a naive state of bliss. The Sovereign's Orb in her left hand also reminds us that she is God's representative on Earth and has a link to Him.
More than that, the Queen is personified as the caring Mother for society due to her keeping the Mother and Father of the Human Race inside a kind of ventilator machine. We get the sense that without her, the foundation of Human society falls away and we go to ruin. And Mother's are typically considered as the source of love, life, caring, sustainment and they rule a domain completely different to that of the male Dog King. Most importantly, the Peacock Queen's domain doesn't interfere with the Dog King's domain.
The Dog King rules over the domain of authority, power, royalty and the military while the Peacock Queen's own domain covers life giving, industrious mechanations of the creation or sustainment of that life brought into being through them as well as uncondiitonal love as only, culturally speaking, a Mother could.
The Peacock Queen, with her added symbolism of a link with God himself, keeps Adam and Eve in a naive state of bliss/happiness while the Dog King would have them face the harsh ways of the world.
Adam and Eve in the bubble was taken from Bosch's Garden Of Earthly Delights:
While Botticelli's Venus appears as a stone statue to the Dog King's left:
It is well known that the work ethnic of the Master Painters such as Botticelli, MichaelAngelo, Bosch, et al, has/have influenced Michael Jackson's own attitude to his work. Diana Ross played a verybig role in getting Michael into art and to be widely appreciative of art in a very big way. You could be forgiven for thinking that the allusions to the works of Botticelli or Bosch might be a way of Michael acknowledging not just the impact of art on his life, but also that of Diana Ross which he mentions in 1988's Moonwalk autobiography.
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发表于 2009-7-5 22:59:01
我还是学着点。。
