Tell Me Something beautiful and perfect object, and sadistic voyeurism, which stems from the fear of castration" (Kim, 107). Soo-yeon's father derives fetishistic pleasure from making the young Soo-yeon stand for painting and photographing her. Her college acquaintance and stalker also photographs her to build a shrine, and Detective Jo repeatedly gazes at her via surveillance camera. The painting that scared Su-Yeon as a child and appears over the opening credits is a recreation of "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" by Rembrandt, which in turn references "De humani corporis fabrica", recalling the anatomy theater of the Renaissance. Kim writes that "Tell
The Dance Lesson The Dance Lesson The Dance Lesson (sometimes known as The Dancing Lesson) is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Edgar Degas created around 1879. It is currently kept at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. There is at least one other work by Degas by this title, also made in about 1879, which is a pastel. The painting is the first of a series of about 40 pictures that Degas painted in this horizontal, frieze-like format. It measures . To the far left is a double bass with an exhausted dancer wearing a bright orange