Sentences with phrase «deliberate vulgarity»

The deliberate vulgarity of these paintings contrasts with the French painter Jean Dubuffet's no less harsh Corps de Dame series of 1950, in which the female, formed with a rich topography of earth colours, relates more directly to universal symbols.

Equally, the viewer is seduced with the intensity of color heightened by the inlay of precious and semi-precious stones — emeralds, rubies, sapphires, diamonds — which all contrive to push the boundaries of excess and allow for those moments of humorous, even deliberate vulgarity.