• ladicius@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days ago

    Is that title some wordplay persons who are not of English mother tongue don’t understand? Are tits “familiar birds”?

    • UncleArthur@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      7 days ago

      The artist was French and this was painted in 1921. Perhaps the wordplay is suggesting the woman is also a bird: beautiful and colourful, like the birds around her.

      • ladicius@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 days ago

        German language has an informal word for sexual intercourse that could also apply here: “vögeln”, literally “birding” (Vogel is bird, vögeln is the correspondent verb). As French and German share quite a lot of terminology maybe there’s a connection.

        The painter wanted to “bird” her…