Talk:Édouard-Henri Avril

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This guy is sick! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.80.32.189 (talk) 06:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Is it "sick" when other animals do it? Are monkeys "sick"? How about horses? Alligators? Spiders? Is plant reproduction also "sick"? At what level does natural behavior cease being "sick"? I'm just wondering what your sick parents taught you. Were you under the delusion that humans are not animals? Or that anything other than lights-out missionary-position baby-making (with wedding rings!) is somehow unnatural? Please share your culturally-backward sickness with me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.214.138 (talk) 00:59, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I think he's just saying that it's one thing for people to do it, and another to draw people doing it. 71.238.211.166 (talk) 20:28, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

The ironical thing is, of course, that this is the *least* "sick" "porn" I've ever seen, I'd classify this as "natural" and even "artistical", the opposite of the kind if "sick" we can find e.g. on the internett. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZaphodBeeblebrox (talk • contribs) 11:25, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Sources

This article lacks any reliable third party sources. A quick google [1] didn't find much besides his images. The article needs verification about the artist not just his paintings.—Sandahl 00:09, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Gallery

In the history of the article, galleries have been inserted and deleted; some of the deletions were warranted by the observation that it's just not necessary to dump every image from the commmons here. However, a single image, and the tamest of them all, doesn't convey the work either. I included one image from each of the large portfolios represented in the commons. DavidOaks (talk) 18:00, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

I removed the extra images again. Please see WP:IG: "A gallery is not a tool to shoehorn images into an article, and a gallery consisting of an indiscriminate collection of images of the article subject should generally either be improved in accordance with the above paragraph or moved to Wikimedia Commons." This artist already has a collection of images in Commons, and it's linked from this article. --Enric Naval (talk) 23:40, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Is it just me, or are this artist's pictures really popular on here?

On any given Wikipedia article about a sexual topic, you're bound to find some of Édouard-Henri Avril's work. What is it about this guy's work that makes him so popular on here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:56A:F806:C900:5627:1EFF:FEEE:36EC (talk) 08:54, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

It seems his works had a widespread application among published erotic literature, as he illustrated not only French authored work.Cloptonson (talk) 05:39, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Infobox portrait

I question the photograph, dated 1885 is of him in that decade, he looks too smoothly groomed and more typical of the 1920s, when he was in his seventies, unlike the pictured man who may have been old enough to serve in WWI but not the Franco-Prussian War. His article in French wikipedia has this picture of him in his infobox, dated 1900 and showing a more hirsute and lightly groomed man. [2] Cloptonson (talk) 05:39, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

I concur. The portraiture, suit and shirt collars, and hair are very 1920s. I estimate that this photo dates to 1914-1930. CabbyNormal (talk) 03:33, 16 July 2023 (UTC)