Peg-Top circa 1937-52 Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer is an artist born in 1902 in Germany and died in 1975. Bellmer is best known for his life size female doll sculptures but what i am looking at is his art work i saw in the Tate Modern. the work i am talking about is 'Peg-Top' (1937-52). It was made with oil on canvas and was an idea for a sculpture which he never got to complete. When i first saw this I thought it was a study on the movement of a human arm but with further research i discovered that its more to do with women's control over a man's head and heart. The peg top symbolizes a man's head and heart and the arm is that of a woman turning it. Bellmer was interested in fetishism and sexual associations which is more noticeable in his other sculptures and art pieces but reappears in this painting but is more subtle. If you look near the middle of the painting you can see what looks to me as a womens breast which i think he was trying to show how woman have control over men through there bodies.
A year after he began 'Peg-Top' Hans Bellmer joined the French Surrealist group which has played a big part in 'Peg-Top'. He uses surreal imagery to show the messages he is trying to push forward in this art work. Hans Bellmer's work seems to have had a big part in Konami's Silent Hill series with a lot of there monsters looking a lot like Bellmers dolls. Bellmer's work looks quite disturbing but show something very interesting and would recommend people to go see them.