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I'm thinking of Ernst's mock Renaissance altarpiece of the Virgin spanking the Holy Infant with the artist, Breton, and I think Éluard as witnesses.
Russell's first two films, Spanking the Monkey (1994) and Flirting With Disaster (1996), were much smaller in scale, but both were products of the same angry sensibility.
(David O. Russell made his great Spanking The Monkey on "short ends" snatched up by his wife, Janet Grillo, then a New Line executive.)
I do support parents who don't believe in corporal punishment--if they can raise their children well without an occasional spanking, more power to them.
When a child continues to behave in a way that can cause harm to himself or to other children, a spanking can be extremely effective.