The Daily Valdemar No. 13: March 25

Valdemar Andersen, Full-page for the satirical magazine Klods-Hans, January 7, 1910.

Today's moment of calm is a dive into the supercilious allowing ourselves to frolic wholeheartedly while taking in the scene.

The two ladies are the 1910 equivalents of today's influencers or so they aim to be, trading in glamor and positioning themselves as the essence of cultural life. One woman is at one with the divan taking on the whole of the horizontal plane of the cartoon. She is fluffy and sheer chiffon inside out. The other woman maps out the vertical plane from top to bottom. She is made up of high contrasts making certain she is impossible to be overlooked. There is not a straight line between them. They position themselves to make the most of each curve of their figures.

Valdemar Andersen is not pointing any fingers. He did, however, balance the darker dress with a plinth behind the divan. Upon the plinth is a figurine of Venus although hardly detectable behind the peacock dance. The goddess remains in her own world bathing in nothing but her own beauty of many millennia.