Sentences with phrase «classical ideals of beauty»

Alia El - Bermani's debut solo exhibition will include more than twelve paintings that examine the dilemmas posed when the classical ideal of beauty meets feminist critique.

Not exact matches

Mapplethorpe's photographs exemplify classical ideals of form and proportion reminiscent of the work of Edward Weston, with their controlled relationships between light and shadow, balance and asymmetry, beauty and obscenity, whilst at the same time clearly presaging a more contemporary interest with the body and self - obsession.

Rebecca Warren's Come, Helga (2006) metamorphoses behind it, challenging the proportioned and balanced ideal of classical female beauty.

Formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet, it is one of a series of paintings Picabia made between 1921 and 1923 in which the ancient ideal of classical beauty is combined with geometric abstraction, and it is housed within its original Pierre Legrain frame.

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While Bertucci's subjects assume the statuesque poses of classical portraiture, her portraits celebrate alternative ideals of beauty.

Formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet, the former owner of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, it is one of a series of paintings Picabia made between 1921 and 1923 in which the ancient ideal of classical beauty is combined with geometric abstraction, and it is housed within its original Pierre Legrain frame.

Also, geometric abstraction is in line with classical aesthetics: Plato for example maintained that the highest form of beauty lies in the «ideal» concept or geometry of a thing, rather than its actual appearance in the natural world.

Further, Batura has compounded the allure of fetish magazine imagery with Classical notions of beauty, blending them into an erotic ideal.

Sylvia's Ordeal (after PdC), is an extraction from a series of smaller works which depict classical representations of women that both confront and engage the Apollonian ideal, and its themes of beauty, sexuality, desire, and the lure of perfection.