Sentences with phrase «grotesque sexual»

The angry provocateur who helped to forge a new identity for German painting after the Second World War is still taking risks; the painter who saw works from his first solo exhibition in 1963 confiscated by the authorities for their grotesque sexual imagery is still challenging the viewer.

The overweight blue man featured throughout several works, functions as a grotesque sexual tourist in Bickerton's seedy world which explores human's conflicting feelings of repulsion and attraction.

When not abdicating their responsibility to render judgment on the most vexing games, they cling to rudimentary notions of value, questioning a game's length but not its grotesque sexual violence.

It has a fabulous contemporary turn, with a plot that involves same - sex love as well as grotesque sexual perversion and graphic violence, which could never have been published in Victorian England.

by Walter Chaw Self - referential and self - satisfied, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a continual stream of grotesque sexual references, leering at scantily clad, foul - mouthed women, and enough broad swipes at mainstream cinema (while featuring a parade of celebrity cameos) that it ends up being a cross between «Beavis and Butthead», Cecil B. Demented, and a Bob Hope Christmas special, not to mention an endurance test.

Not exact matches

Later works on view illustrate ways Still repurposed his Yaddo images, as his career progressed, into grotesque social commentary and symbolic forms alluding to sexual drive and mythical dualisms.

His female figures seek a peculiar balance between beautiful and grotesque, situated in dense scenes of sexual gluttony or humorously taunting the viewer with awkward nudity.

Doreen Garner's work identifies, mines and exploits the tissues that bind the sexual and the grotesque, specifically regarding the black female body.

Other favorites include Tina Lugo's Wrath, a piece influenced by the Japanese Ero Guru Nansensu movement, that simultaneously provokes the sexual and the grotesque.

In Nocturnes, Bickerton's third solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, the artist revisits mankind's antithetical attraction and repulsion to the grotesque, exotic, and sexual.

The grotesque, human - like «figures» and transcendent, textural shapes with a subtle resemblance to sexual organs.

Characterized by overt sexual iconography that is at once humorous and grotesque, the compositions also incorporate reinvented slang and catchphrases that eliminate any notion of ambiguity.

Fischl's most notorious works are his 1980s paintings, depicting the American suburbs in raw, grotesque and sexual tones.