Sentences with phrase «frank eroticism»

His first truly experimental works were inspired by his frequent visits to ethnographic museums in Paris, tap into the abstract forms and frank eroticism of non-Western tribal cultures.

Who would have guessed that Tracey Emin, the wild child who scandalized YBA - era London with the frank eroticism of her visual sex diaries (and her rock - star public behavior), would morph into a beloved Royal Academician, bearer of the Olympic torch during the 2012 London games, and espouser of Tory politics?

In the early 1970s, cult filmmaker Jess Franco inspired by the Hammer horror films being made in the UK revisited the iconic monsters of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes of frank eroticism.

Not exact matches

During this blissful getaway, marked by shared hotel suites and hours behind the wheel, the two women will at once cement their bond — in a scene of frank, unabashed eroticism and tenderness that shatters the movie's patina of restraint — and then see it cruelly torn away from them.

Olds has always been a frank and transcendent poet of the body, and now, in her fifth book, a major work, she expands her profoundly tactile sensibility to embrace the entire cosmos in poems of powerful female eroticism and emotional acuity that celebrate love both earthly and spiritual.

Over a fifty - year career, Semmel has practiced a radically self - possessed painterly project concerned with charged eroticism and frank, corporeal self - portraiture.

It means the heritage of Cindy Sherman and her Untitled Film Stills, even when Sherman addresses something as frank and disturbing as eroticism in Robert Mapplethorpe.

Carol Rama (Italian, 1919 — 2015) was a painter whose work dealt with themes of sexuality and eroticism, with frank emphasis on female pleasure.