Sentences with phrase «eroticism becomes»

The hallways fill with blood, and a place of diseased eroticism becomes a charnel house, a realm that hosts an ecstatic exorcism of sexual bitterness that also represents carnal intoxication.

Subsequently, eroticism became more emphatic in paintings such as Giorgione's Sleeping Venus (ca. 1510), which situated the reclining nude in an idyllic landscape, and Titian's Danaë series (ca. 1553 — 1556).

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If it has not become so already, surely it is now obvious that our consideration of Radha's and Krishna's relationship has brought us to encounter the issue of eroticism and sexuality in the human - divine love relationship.

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.»

It's an interesting film because Crowe's usual strengths — command of tone, dialogue — are some of the weaknesses here, and yet the director shows what an impressive visual helmer he's become with some genuinely haunting images, and there's a darkness, and genuine eroticism, that isn't present elsewhere in his work.

Anti-Negro prejudice became heavily laden with sexuality; the already complex mythology of Negro sexual potency and eroticism and of the purity of the white woman was developed further; phobia of miscegenation grew; and interracial concubinage between white men and Negro women became more clandestine, more commercialized, and probably less fertile as well as less common.

Balance, unity and radiant light, as well as a subtle eroticism, become ever more emphatic in these works.

The imagery becomes transgressive for retaining its eroticism amidst a complete lack of bodies.

Permeated by an aura of eroticism and decadence, and loaded with codes and double - meanings, the works further point to the intricacies of self - identity, while celebrating moments of transformation — the ordinary becoming extraordinary.

It is due to this concurrent state of reconstruction and deconstruction of the body, eroticism versus monstrosity as well as the eerie assemblages of body parts that de Kooning achieves an ambiguity that not only challenged notions of femininity but also became the cornerstone of his artistic output.

As people become more mature and aware of what's really important in life, they are capable of deeper intimacy, more meaningful desire, and more eroticism.