Monday, November 15, 2010

More Lovers

Jasper Tanning
Jasper Tanning.... just fell to temptation. He was "assisted" by his assistant, and literally caught with his pants down by Helga. He is based after Man Ray, a man whose personal life wasn't terribly eventful other than cheating on his wife with an assistant or two.
Sargent Jacques
Sargent Jacques is a Partier and cheat gallivanting around France in his undies, much to the embarrassment and disappointment of Helga. He wasn't always this way, but a new environment changed him, much like a new model changed the life of Edward Weston.
Weston was married to a homely, boring woman but she was devoted to him and he to her.
Then Tina Modotti arrived. She was beautiful, vivacious, and everything that Edward Weston desired in a model and a mate. She rocked his world and his photography, and sadly Mrs. Weston was left in the dust.
Dirk Calligan
Dirk Calligan is the first lover to break dear Helga's heart, and commit a crime against her with abandonment and stealing her motorcycle. He is based off of Paul Gauguin, and the abandonment he committed against his wife and children when he left them in Europe for a 13 year old mistress and richer art atmosphere in Tahiti.
Dublin Baker
Dublin Baker conveniently takes after his namesake and is a baker who beats his women like his dough. He is an alcoholic, and when he drinks, he beats. He feels guilty for his behavior, so with cig in hand he takes advice from the Holy Bible, but never does anything about it.
Dublin Baker is based off of Jackson Pollock, who's life long struggle with alcoholism eventually leads to his own death. It almost leads to Dublin's too, when, after beating Helga and passing out due to a night of heavy drinking, Helga castrates him.
Clark Klent
Here is another example of the great luck Helga has had with cheats, in this case, Clark Klent.
Now, Clark Klent isn't necessarily based off of Superman, but the pun works nicely. Who I had in mind for Clark was Alfred Stieglitz, who ran many galleries in New York, promoted fine art and fine art photography in America, and was married to the painter Georgia O'Keefe.
Stieglitz for the most part was a devoted to husband to Georgia O'Keefe, but when Georgia decided to travel to New Mexico continually for her art and Alfred continued to be devoted to his photography endeavors his interests momentarily strayed.
Alfred began seeing a woman named Dorothy Norman who was married and had a child. She would come to the studio doing mundane tasks for him, and before long they declared their love for each other. Georgia O'Keefe knew of Alfred's interest in Dorothy, but just considered it a short lived infatuation and wasn't too concerned about it. She continued to travel, and Alfred took advantage of her absence to photograph Dorothy. Their affair was short-lived, but even after the physicality of it had ended, they continued to work together whenever Georgia was gone until he died.
The real betrayal happened in Georgia's mind in 1932 during a retrospective of Alfred's work where he placed a young attractive photograph of Dorothy next to a photograph of an aged, sun damaged Georgia O'Keefe. It was a public act of spite to Georgia, and perfect inspiration for an immature lover of Helga's.
The story of Clark is simple: he isn't a terrible guy, he is just a low dirty cheat. Being with Louis Lane is something that is easily accepted, there isn't a deep shock to it. It's unfortunate and predictable, but it is what it is and not worth Helga's time to do something drastic... maybe just a little disorderly conduct.

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