Not exact matches
Featuring iconic images, such as Courbet's Origin of the
World, alongside little - known works, The
Art of the
Erotic reveals the universal attraction of the erotic in the visual arts and may also offer surprises from the artists inc
Erotic reveals the universal attraction of the
erotic in the visual arts and may also offer surprises from the artists inc
erotic in the visual
arts and may also offer surprises from the artists included.
1992 Rubber Soul, LedisFlam Gallery, New York, NY Erotiques, A.B. Galeries, Paris, France The Auto -
Erotic Object, Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY 1920 - The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, Exit
Art / The First
World, New York, NY
Editors» Tip: The
Art of the
Erotic This carefully curated and beautifully packaged book spotlights nearly 200 works from the
world's most important artists, including Titian, Paul Cézanne, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Cecily Brown, Anselm Kiefer, George Condo and Anish Kapoor.
India Carpenter, Alex Cecchetti, Antoine Davenne, Patrizio Di Massimo, Chokyosai Eiri, Keisai Eisen, Tim Etchells, Katsushika Hokusai, Lenio Kaklea, Carlos Motta, Francesco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson, Laure Prouvost, Giles Round, Yanagawa Shigenobu, Lucy Stein and anonymous from the
erotic art collection of Ferdinand Bertholet, one of the most important in the
world.
«Exquisite Mayhem: The Spectacular and
Erotic World of Wrestling» was published by German
art house Taschen in 2001.
By rejecting the distinctions between
art and what was then considered pornography, these artists helped usher in a new
erotic world order.
The choice of works is very deliberate with the exhibition broken down into seven themes: Beauty, Power and Space, which looks at each artist's engagement with the sublime, a theme central to English Romantic
art but which survived through the modernist movement and is a key feature of Twombly's paintings; Atmosphere, which considers the ways in which the three artists paint land and sea through a filter of atmospheric conditions; Naught so Sweet as Melancholy, named after a phrase in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, where the theme of loss and memorialisation are central concerns; The Seasons which reflects upon the passage of time; Fire and Water where all three artists evince the power of the elements; The Vital Force which brings together works of a sensual or
erotic nature; and finally A Floating
World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their lives.
So after entering the
world of the artist and his
art, the viewer becomes aware of the many different meanings and associations linked with his work, beginning with
erotic associations, moving on to suggestions of a more precious material and concluding with confusion about the disproportionate format.
Shunga, which is the Japanese term for
erotic art, literally meaning spring pictures, is a selection 170 works from collections around the
world, in the form of paintings, prints and illustrated books.