Sacred and Profane Part one

 

1. Francisco Goya (1746–1828)

  • Key Work: Witches' Sabbath (El Aquelarre) (1797–98)
    • Features a dark, hallucinatory scene of witches gathered around a demonic goat (Baphomet).
    • Erotic undertones emerge in the twisted ecstasy of participants, blending terror and forbidden desire.
    • Sacred/Profane Tension: Uses grotesque imagery to critique superstition while evoking primal ritualism.

2. Hans Baldung Grien (1484–1545)

  • Key Work: The Witches’ Sabbath (1510)
    • Early Renaissance depiction of nude witches in a frenzied, sensual ritual with animalistic and occult symbols.
    • Combines eroticism with moralizing themes (witchcraft as heresy).
    • Sacred/Profane Tension: Juxtaposes Christian fears of female sexuality with pagan ritual energy.

3. Félicien Rops (1833–1898)

  • Key Work: Satan Sowing Seeds (1882) & The Temptation of St. Anthony (1878)
    • Symbolist artist who fused eroticism, blasphemy, and occultism.
    • Often portrayed nude witches in ecstatic communion with demonic forces.
    • Sacred/Profane Tension: Explicitly linked sexual liberation to anti-clerical rebellion.

4. Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956)

  • Key Work: The Witches’ Sabbath (1913)
    • Occultist artist who reimagined Sabbats as psychosexual rites.
    • Fluid, androgynous figures in trance-like states, merging eroticism and mysticism.
    • Sacred/Profane Tension: Framed witchcraft as a path to transcendence through taboo-breaking.

5. Modern & Contemporary Takes

  • Leonora Carrington (1917–2011): Surrealist paintings like The Sabbat (1957) blend eroticism and ritual in dreamlike, feminist contexts.
  • Valerie Herrmann: Contemporary artist reimagines Sabbats as celebrations of feminine power, using vivid, sensual symbolism.
  • Comics/Illustration: Jillian Tamaki’s witch illustrations often subvert Sabbat tropes with queer, erotic energy.

Why This Theme Endures

The Sabbat’s erotic charge stems from its historical framing as both:

  • Sacred: A subversive spiritual gathering (reclaiming pagan traditions).
  • Profane: A societal taboo (feared by religious authorities as depraved).

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