Sentences with phrase «loamy hungers»

(Georgia O'Keeffe's groundbreaking abstract paintings were derided as «great painful and ecstatic climaxes,» an «outpouring of sexual juices,» «loamy hungers of the flesh,» «the very essence of woman as Life Giver.»

It's a taboo that goes all the way back to Georgia O'Keefe, who gave up trying to beat down that door in the early 20th century when her radically abstract, viscous paintings were described as «great painful, ecstatic climaxes,» «an outpouring of sexual juices,» «loamy hungers of the flesh,» «the very essence of woman as Life Giver.»