Araki, Nobuyoshi (b. 1940) Controversial Japanese postmodernist photographer specializing
in erotic imagery involving female nudes, in order to explore issues of death and other social taboos.
Not exact matches
Enjoy an evening of working with original source materials used
in drawings
in the exhibition Cecily Brown: Rehearsal and turn vintage
erotic imagery into a one of a kind Valentine while sipping a complimentary glass of sparkling wine.
Because though Ungerer was a beloved illustrator, he was also rejected for the explicit
imagery in his political and
erotic work.
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.
Nakayama creates sensual works that explore the camp aesthetic of 1970s
erotic imagery and recall the loose illustrations
in the classic sex manual, The Joy of Sex.
Reflecting on the female body
in its historical and social context, she has explored themes of generation and goddess
imagery, sexuality, and everyday
erotics, as well as personal biography and loss.
This exhibition presents an extraordinary selection of his photographs from floral still lifes and rare colour photographs to portraits, figure studies and his controversial
erotic imagery that charted his involvement
in New York's gay scene.
Italian painter Francesco Clemente came to prominence
in the mid-1970s with vivid paintings rife with
erotic imagery of mutilated body parts, gesturing amorphous figures often depicted
in rich colors, as well as a series of contorted self - portraits.
In the same way, Robert Mapplethorpe's pristine black and white photograph of a male nude is equally attentive to the formal qualities of the figure as well as to the
erotic nature of the
imagery.
Recently featured by multiple galleries at Art Basel
in 2017, this radical Egyptian artist borrows
erotic imagery from pornographic magazines and transforms them into bright embroidered canvases.
The film is a collage of
imagery including
erotic photographs which have been censored for use
in Japanese libraries by having the rude bits sandpapered away.
Certainly, the aspiration for
erotic imagery presented
in an art setting is that it would stimulate reflections on desire, sexism and human rights.
This exhibition, done
in collaboration with the Snite Museum of the University of Notre Dame, presents graphite drawings from the late 1960s to the 1990s that provide a comprehensive overview of his most recognizable
imagery, a visual language instilled with the
erotics of desire and vulnerability.