Sentences with phrase «ambiguous early pictures»
In the context of today's pornographic popular culture and post-post-movement feminism, perhaps we can relax scrutiny of O'Keeffe's surreally ambiguous early pictures.
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Peter Schjeldahl writes in the October 9th, 2017 issue of The New Yorker, «The happiest surprise in Trigger is a trend in painting that takes inspiration from ideas of indeterminate sexuality for revived formal invention... Christina Quarles... rhymes ambiguous imagery of gyrating bodies with dynamics of disparate pictorial techniques... The wholes and parts of bodies in Quarles's cheerfully orgiastic pictures entangle in alternating styles of line, stroke, stain, and smear... called to mind early nineteen - forties Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, who fractured Picassoesque figuration on the way to physically engaging abstraction... Quarles playing that process in reverse, adapting abstract aesthetics to carnal representation.