Sentences with phrase «about eroticism»

Somewhere between an installation and a performance, this exhibit poses complex questions about eroticism, sexuality, the grotesque and taboo.

But where Picasso's work was about suffering on a large scale (Guernica) and sex at an intimate level (just about everything else), Bourgeois's art is about personal pain and a sexuality that is less about personal intimacy and more about eroticism on a grand scale.

The scenes I am describing are less about eroticism than luxury.

Not exact matches

The difference here, as the feminist philosopher Sandra Bartky puts it, is the difference between healthy eroticism and rituals rooted in toxic ideas about masculinity.

This is not about the allure of nine - year - old ankles or the eroticism of the graying locks of a middle - aged mother, but about power and real estate.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

Psychologist says, «there's no age limit to eroticism» EliteSingles» Psychologist Salama Marine says «People tend to feel uncomfortable with the idea of senior sexuality because it has nothing to do with reproduction; senior sex is purely about love and sexual fulfilment.

Eroticism and philosophy don't always go hand in hand, but you can find them both in Jean - Claude Brisseau's 2008 drama about a young woman in search of the ultimate orgasm.

Under the Skin is just so visually free and uninhibited that there is an intense dark, destructive sexiness in everything about it — quite apart from the hilarious, bizarre, mesmeric eroticism of the film itself.

In regards to anything — his suspense, the ideas of gaze, or even something like the eroticism that the boys club loves talking about in «Vertigo»?

Reverse Shot's Damon Smith talks to Catherine Breillat (Bluebeard, Fat Girl) about fairy tales, death and eroticism, and the aesthetics of cruelty.

[Read more...] about «No desire if it's not forbidden»: Dread, eroticism, and text messaging in Personal Shopper

But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.

Ahead of the opening of her first London solo show, we talk to Russian artist Olga Fedorova about women, eroticism, and creating your own artistic universe.

Written about by influential critics (Judd, Lippard), and shown in prominent galleries (Martha Jackson, Pace), Lukin's work fused the Juddian «specific object» with hard - edge painting, geometric illusionism, the exuberant palette of Pop, and a feeling for sensual curving forms that exuded a playful eroticism.

Back in the gallery, viewers can watch her video of speakers confiding their most intimate and vivid thoughts about smell's relationship to memory, identity, death and eroticism.

This exhibition of newly commissioned and loaned work by contemporary artists, whose use of the image of the boxer provided an opportunity to consider the role of the male body as a focus for debates about race, eroticism, class and masculinity.

«Passionate Marriage is about resilience rather than damage, health rather than old wounds, intimacy and eroticism rather than techniques, and human potential rather than trauma.»

Eroticism can not blossom in an environment filled with chronic anger, resentment, power plays, blaming, withdrawal, hurt feelings, sadness, resignation, defensiveness, lack of trust, poor communication, or ambivalence about intimacy and commitment.