On the Wings of Love

The painting depicts a muscular naked man being delivered to a woman on the wing-tip of a gigantic swan.[1] The swan was "cemented in the imagination as a creature of romance for a whole generation of impressionable working class suburban kids". The anthropomorphic projection may not have been entirely random;[2] swans are believed to take a mate for life, and the graceful white birds might symbolize monogamous felicity