Sentences with phrase «of erotic»

Mention has been made of the erotic allusions and underlying irony in her work.

Heads are deliberately cropped to connote an autobiographical perspective that subverts the viewer's accustomed tendency to assume the traditional role of the erotic voyeur.

Nevine Mahmoud's works are often described as arousing, particularly of the erotic kind.

This example of shunga (a genre of erotic woodblock prints dating back to the 9th Century) is significant not only for its shocking metaphor of victory in war --- it makes plain the sexual dimension of conquest --- but also that it signaled Japan's own imperial desires.

The exhibition's central themes are continued in a group of sketches and paintings of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin, JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss is on show in the Sunley Gallery at Turner Contemporary.

Taken together, these shows trace a line of erotic imagery from the crass commercialism of pure pornography to the more refined commercialism of the art gallery, raising questions about how these forms relate to modern sexuality.

Frustrated by sexism, she returned to New York single, unleashing a spate of erotic paintings, sometimes of herself and her lover, in a tantric range of positions.

Destricted, a compilation of erotic shorts by contemporary artists including Matthew Barney's Hoist is playing tonight and Wednesday, May 17 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Destricted - a collection of erotic short films by contemporary artists that includes Matthew Barney's 14 1/2 minute video Hoist - has been released on DVD in the UK.

Claes Oldenburg and wife Coosje van Brugge, intended their art to be fun, a happy combination of the ordinary and the extraordinary, with a bit of the erotic.

Three Masters of Erotic Photography will be on view February 23 — April 15, 2017.

With no women in sight, the automobile becomes the focus of all erotic attention.

By 1951, the forms had begun to take on a life of their own, sometimes as metaphors of erotic encounters between male and female.

A small, raised vertical ellipse is poised at the center of each painting, suggesting a concentration of erotic energy.

An exhibition of erotic photography With; C'est Elle, Frantisek Drtikol, Ariane Lopez - Huici, Mackenzie Parker, Sebastien Ricciardi, Katia Santibañez, James Siena, Roy Stuart, Kunie Sugiura

The show reunites three artists featured in the controversial exhibition and book Vier Meister der Erotischen Fotografie (Four Masters of Erotic Photography), which debuted at Cologne's Photokina in 1970.

Indeed, Jaquette's coupling of erotic text with «innocent» cream puff pastries unmasked confusing cultural attitudes towards sexuality, gender roles, and longing, as pertinent today as they were fifty years ago.

Suzanne Zander rounds up William Crawford, an avid draftsman of erotic scenes and photographs taken by an unknown man named Gunther K. of his red - haired secretary, with whom he had an affair.

The result was an art industry that provided affordable and accessible images of erotic beauty to the new «chonin» or «city man».

Traditionally Western culture has taken a more chaste approach to the depiction of erotic engagement.

The group show indulges all of the above, but charts a more specific path: the darker side of desire and how it has manifested in the making of erotic objects.

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Evan Ifekoya's current work investigates the possibility of an erotic and poetic occupation using film, performative writing and sound, focused on co-authored, intimate forms of knowledge production and the radical potential of spectacle.

This new collection of work is not only an energetic and colourful showcase of works inspired by the darkness of the erotic and sexual fantasies, but also a powerful social stand.

Presented in book format, as a static archive, it's completely banal — not a series of erotic images so much as an overall picture of a particular erotic, much as Guyton's black paintings together represent an idea of the monochrome rather than a selection of monochromatic works.

Even today, one of the most fractious issues within feminist political and artistic circles is the question of pornography and the politics of erotic representation.

Today, for example, the promiscuous overexposure of nude bodies on the Internet and television has forever altered the very notion of erotic representation.

Although he has no prescribed meaning for the colour, he embraces its various associations, from timidity and carefulness to a more Chinese connotation of the erotic.

This show of Schiele's works on paper is the first major solo exhibition to be held in over 20 years at a UK museum, and charts the development of his erotic nudes from 1910 until his death in 1918.

Editors» Tip: The Art of the Erotic This carefully curated and beautifully packaged book spotlights nearly 200 works from the world's most important artists, including Titian, Paul Cézanne, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Cecily Brown, Anselm Kiefer, George Condo and Anish Kapoor.

The exhibition's central themes continue in a display of paintings, sketches and watercolours of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin as well as JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss is on show at Turner Contemporary until 2 September 2012.

Prepared and published by Phaidon, The Art of the Erotic is a fascinating book that celebrates the connection sexuality and art formed over 2000 years ago.

With its chronological organization, The Art of the Erotic provides insights into human sexuality throughout the ages.

The artworks in The Art of the Erotic assert a deliberate attempt by their creators to capture eroticism in its most glorious form.

They rejected the idealized nudes of academic painting, as well as the hypocritical confinement of the erotic to mythological subjects.

The Art of the Erotic is a fantastic survey of erotic art that shows how this genre evolved over the course of centuries.

As a result, more and more young artists are coming forth with provocative bodies of work, while the market constantly keeps searching through the older artists» oeuvres in search of erotic artworks that may have slipped through the cracks for whatever reason.

Published in October 2017, The Art of the Erotic is a chronological publication which confirms human sexuality and art have always gone hand in hand with each other.

Besides zeroing - in on erotic paintings and photos, The Art of the Erotic does not forget to pay homage to sculptures as the editors prepared reproductions of pieces by Auguste Rodin and Louise Bourgeois.

Exploring the body in graphic terms, Pearlstein forecloses the possibility of erotic arousal.

Yet these images, sobering as they may be, appear alongside those of bodies embracing, caught in moments of erotic pleasure, suggesting that depictions of tenderness, of love lived as well as lost, offer an equally valuable form of revolution.

But: did you know that she has branched into bronze sculptures, or films, or lovely embroidered versions of her iconic drawings of erotic self - gratification?

«Above all», he writes, «what must be emphasized about the New New painters is their painterly excess, even violence, with its virtually overwhelming sense of erotic richness and fatal energy, bringing in its wake a sense of sounding the depths of unconscious emotion - or rather, of a sense of self we only become fleetingly conscious of in ecstasy.

Cranach was a friend of Martin Luther — and a purveyor of erotic art.

The artist will also be presenting what he calls a «sculptural animation» as well as selections from New Lovers, a series of erotic ebooks from his Badlands Unlimited press that is due to launch this month.

This comprehensive retrospective brings together more than 100 of his paintings, from his ubiquitous romantic scenes to a selection of his erotic works.

Sleeping Figure (1980 - 1982), for example, is an astonishingly tender evocation of erotic familiarity, combining somehow equal parts sexual charge and detached reflection.

Artist Fahren Feingold pulls from history, the present, and the future for her watercolor paintings of erotic nudes.

Compounding this sense of erotic power play is the fact that his physique is partially concealed.

1998 Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection from the National Museum of American Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY The «60's in the Seventies, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY Peep Show, Exhibition of Erotic Fact and Fantasy, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY Twentieth Century American Drawings, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID