Sentences with phrase «erotic paintings of»

In between are many of her most recognizable images, like her hyper - erotic paintings of pearls between glistening lips parted in ecstasy and her video of grimy, stiletto - heeled feet kicking through glass.

Summoning a kinship with the kaleidoscopic mosaics of the Byzantine era, the erotic paintings of the Middle East, and the compositional flatness of Japanese woodcuts, Iannone's paintings, video, wood cutouts and illustrated text pieces, primarily from the artist's early career, reveal the visions of a matriarchal high priestess.

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Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints by Robert Kiely Yale, 288 pages, $ 40 What I discovered,» writes Robert Kiely in this sumptuously illustrated book on Italian Renaissance paintings of the saints, «were images often infused with tenderness, exquisite sentiment, erotic vigor, but....

It is through the experience of his own body that he painted erotic pictures, and it is through his own physical imagination, heightened by sexual experience, that he painted the war pictures.

Ostensibly both a remake of the Southern Gothic erotic thriller by Don Siegel from 1971 and also an adaptation of Thomas P. Cullinan's 1966 novel «A Painted Devil», Coppola (who also wrote the screenplay and won the Best Director Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival) smartly and slowly unravels her tale via the female gaze in a film that, if one is patient with it, slowly pulls you under its sunlit and fainéant spell.

(In Hindi and English with subtitles) Klimt (Unrated) John Malkovich channels Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) in the titular role of this bio-pic about the iconoclastic Viennese artist and notorious womanizer who fathered 30 children with the models featured in his erotic paintings.

Joan Semmel's Erotic Series (or «fuck paintings») of the 1970s, subsequent nude self - portraits, and recent unflinching depictions of her aging body establish her as one of the most important feminist painters of her generation.

Two thick brown, purple, and green globs of oil paint are dolloped onto the top half of a small white canvas — the word «erotic» is outlined in red below.

The Sick Child (1896), the hellishly erotic Madonna (1894 - 95), The Dance of Life (1899 - 1900), Vampire (1893), Red Virginia Creeper (1900) and, if you believe the curators at MoMA, Self - Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed (1940 - 42)-- each painting encapsulates the artist's preoccupations with physical vulnerability, sexual avarice, emotional alienation and the futility of faith.

Avoid the former show if you want to keep away from abject, base subject matter — McCarthy has made his career our exposing erotic, profane and damn dirty desires, and his new paintings push all boundaries of taste imaginable... I wonder what image our picture editor is going to choose for this page?

The Art of the Erotic documents this timeless aspect of art history, through 170 carefully curated chronological works, ranging from drawings by Turner, prints by Hokusai, Indian temple carvings, Persian miniatures, to paintings by Botticelli, Picasso and Cecily Brown, and sculptures by Michelangelo, Rodin and Louise Bourgeois.

Everyone knows the paintings of Lisa Yuskavage, an artist who rocketed to renown in the 1990s for her unabashedly erotic, provocative, and empowering depictions of women.

Hans Schärer: «Madonnas and Erotic Watercolors» (through Feb. 7) One of Switzerland's most celebrated artists, Hans Schärer (1927 — 1997) created paintings that look as if made by a self - taught psychiatric patient.

In the 1970s, Semmel began her exploration of female sexuality with the «Sex Paintings» and «Erotic Series,» large scale depictions of highly sexual positions.

By isolating and highlighting fragments of body parts, the opulent bas - reliefs and series of erotic paintings (Hand Fragments) refer in particular to the women washing and dressing motif.

One shows a dark and erotic clearing, another the tree assaulted with red paint and the last that Titian - blue tarpaulin, dangling like a spectral ghost from the bough of a tree: life, death and resurrection.

Writing of Klapheck's psycho - erotic «machine» imagery in a 1994 Art in America review, critic Ken Johnson wrote, «What makes Klapheck's pictures compelling is the way the objects he paints are psycho - erotically animated.

This second display starts with an ink and pencil drawing Erotic Composition (1967 - 70), by Lebanese artist Huguette Caland which is a study for the abstract, sensual paintings of the body that she created later on in her career.

Referred to by Semmel as «fuck paintings,» the Second Erotic Series paintings are sharp and realistic but retain the intense, unnatural colors of the First Erotic Series.

The Portuguese artist sees painting as a way of exacting revenge, and says her work has become less erotic as she's aged

It came after several years of erotic paintings, but it still comes as a shock compared to scenes, like his Stone Breakers, that so defined a break with academic painting and prefigured modern art.

Works such as Lunar V (Moon V), ca. 1973, show a hybrid of painting and sculpture that has as its constant the research of an erotic sensuality.

[3] Her MFA thesis show at Pratt consisted of paintings from the First Erotic Series.

I paint the female figure as others before me, and continue to push boundaries by exploring current political constructs of feminism through erotic imagery.

Utilizing the erotic tension of surrealism and the stylish veneer of Pop Art, Brooklyn - based artist Emily Mae Smith is constantly seeking new ways to place her painting into both conceptual art and the history of painting itself.

One of the key works in the show is The Swing (after Fragonard), 2001, a re-creation by British - Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare of the French artist's highly erotic painting.

Desiring to «revisit the spirit of 15th c. Italian painting» and Japanese Bunraku puppet theater, Ms. Larsen creates tilting panoramas featuring tea ceremonies, cowboys and cowgirls, the hand of God and an interrupted erotic encounter involving two women, one man and a pair of kayaks.

Brooklyn - based artist Heidi Hahn paints women but eschews explicit or erotic representation of her female subjects in favor of a nuanced perspective that allows viewers to understand what it means to be a woman in 2017.

Artist Fahren Feingold pulls from history, the present, and the future for her watercolor paintings of erotic nudes.

During his New York years Wong made paintings of his environment — brick buildings, storefronts, interiors — as well as depictions of prison life and firemen, for whom he had an erotic fascination.

There is an erotic sense to this notion - the viewer's pursuit of an object of desire - and in Byrne's paintings this pursuit is sublimated into intricate plays of display and concealment.

But smoking at all was unladylike, and so, in 17th century painting, cigarettes appeared only in the hands of prostitutes and other «fallen women»; later, the cigarette became an important marker of Victorian erotic photography.

In Vevers» work, the gold leaf and stylized figuration of pre-Renaissance painting collides with Japanese erotic prints from the early 19th century.Throw in a 20th - century comic book turn and a 21st - century alarm about environmental conditions, and you've got her cocktail - seductive, but with teeth.

This comprehensive retrospective brings together more than 100 of his paintings, from his ubiquitous romantic scenes to a selection of his erotic works.

Courbet's painting positions women as the butt of a joke: as either an erotic object or a utilitarian object.

Widely associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting, Lisa Yuskavage has developed her own genre of portraiture in which lavish, erotic, vulgar, angelic women (and more recently men) are cast within fantastical landscapes or dramatically lit interiors.

1966 The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Selections from the John G. Powers Collection The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, American Painting Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, American Painting The Museum of Modem Art, New York, Art in the Mirror, exhibition traveled to Mansfield Art Guild, Mansfield, OH; San Francisco State College; San Francisco; Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; State University College, Oswego, NY) Loeb Art Center, New York University, New York, Contemporary Drawings Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Erotic Art ’66 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Recent Still Life The Museum of Modem Art, New York, Contemporary American Still Life, exhibition traveled to State University College, Oswego.

Besides zeroing - in on erotic paintings and photos, The Art of the Erotic does not forget to pay homage to sculptures as the editors prepared reproductions of pieces by Auguste Rodin and Louise Bourerotic paintings and photos, The Art of the Erotic does not forget to pay homage to sculptures as the editors prepared reproductions of pieces by Auguste Rodin and Louise BourErotic does not forget to pay homage to sculptures as the editors prepared reproductions of pieces by Auguste Rodin and Louise Bourgeois.

They rejected the idealized nudes of academic painting, as well as the hypocritical confinement of the erotic to mythological subjects.

Nineteen works have been acquired that highlight key moments in Brimfield's career, from collaborative films created for past performances and meticulously drawn and painted posters for imaginary erotic magazines about Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, to five photographs recreating moments in the life of Jackson Pollock from the perspective of the canvas, a filmed music hall performance starring a fictional raconteur, and posters anticipating her proposed 2015 exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield.

The exhibition's central themes continue in a display of paintings, sketches and watercolours of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin as well as JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss is on show at Turner Contemporary until 2 September 2012.

Cesarine: Many of your paintings feature erect male genitalia and copulation — what draws you to depict erotic imagery?

Ghada Amer is best known for her large - scale, hand - embroidered paintings of seemingly abstract lines that resolve into repetitive patterns of highly erotic figures and scenes.

The exhibition traces the development of Sillman's work over the past 25 years — from her early use of cartoon figures and a vivacious palette, through to her exploration of the diagrammatic line, the history of Abstract Expressionism, and a growing concern with the bodily and the erotic dimensions of paint.

These are just a few of the things that struck me about work in the exhibition: Feeley was intensely interested in a confounded figure - ground relationship; he was able to economically synthesize the formal and the comic; he was attentive to the erotic; his work clearly stands apart from Color Field painting.»

Presented in book format, as a static archive, it's completely banal — not a series of erotic images so much as an overall picture of a particular erotic, much as Guyton's black paintings together represent an idea of the monochrome rather than a selection of monochromatic works.

His glossy photo - realist paintings isolate a particularly influential branch from our ubiquitous pop - culture cacophony — the movie poster — to illustrate the tensions, escape fantasies, conflicts, erotic stimulation and power of this popular form of mass - media imagery.

The LACMA show gathers about 70 of his paintings and drawings: bulbous, erotic abstractions (along with plenty of not - so - abstractions that are NSFW).

The main draw is a veritable retrospective of the drawings, erotic and otherwise, and a smattering of paintings starring the new - in - town, gold - on - gold «Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» Also here: a photo mural of sections of Klimt's most famous painted mural, the «Beethoven Frieze»; a period room; photographs and personal effects, including one of the artist's signature caftans; and piped - in music, all written in Vienna of course, and available for purchase on CD.

Reichman's compositions frequently reference those of religious paintings, imbuing the erotic with a sense of sacred space, struggle and sacrifice, while locating his work in a tradition of historical painting.