The artist scrawls «teeth» and «brain» with broad, energized lines, creating a visual vibration that turns the letters into evocative phallic and
labial forms.
Not exact matches
When such a condition occurs in a male, the easiest
form of plastic surgery by far, with a view to correcting the abnormality and gaining a cosmetically satisfactory appearance, is to remove all the male parts, including the testes, and to construct from the tissues available a
labial and vaginal configuration.
The insistent way in which Wilke challenged received notions of the profanity and secrecy of women's sex organs, repeating with unswerving commitment the folded
labial and vaginal
form, can be seen in a number of other key works in the exhibition.
The pastels and slithery
forms of «Mountain and Sea» could be read as descending from Georgia O'Keeffe's flowery colors and
labial shapes.
Two particularly classic preparatory drawings — intense in color,
labial mandalas in
form — are standouts.