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Bacchanal A Faun Teased by Children by Gian Lorenzo Bernini Metropolitan museum of art

...... The sense of softness and liberty bestowed upon the piece by the line and texture is oddly juxtaposed with the impressions created by other elements of Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children. Most obviously, the piece is composed in a way that makes the fauns posture seem unnaturally contorted, as if the scene has moved beyond teasing and into torment. The extreme angle of the head and neck, especially with the backwards-arcing back, evince more of a struggle to get away than the softer elements of the sculpture suggest. The same is true of the greedy leaning of the children and the almost bored expression on one of their faces, even as his arm stretches across the fauns head in a somewhat brutal and condescending gesture
The relationship of the figures to one another is the most oppressive aspect of the work. The extreme proximity of not only the children to the faun, but the faun to the tree, heightens the feeling of imprisonment that one gets from the faun. The arm reaching up to grasp the top limb of the tree, the only part of the faun to even somewhat emerge from the crowded chaos of the piece,