Sentences with phrase «on eroticism»

Her clinical work focuses on eroticism and transformation.

Dorothy Iannone is a Berlin - based artist whose works focus on eroticism and the female sexual experience.

In her practice, the Berlin - based artist focuses on eroticism and the female sexual experience.

[8] Fight Censorship was composed of several women artists whose work focused on eroticism, including Joan Semmel, Judith Bernstein, Hannah Wilke, Juanita McNeely, Barbara Nessim, Eunice Golden, and Joan Glueckman.

Beginning with «Night Swimming,» 1999, a series of grainy photographs documenting the murky corners of Manhattan's gay sex clubs, Stephen Barker has focused his camera on the eroticism of anonymous desire.

Bernardo Bertolucci returns to the scene of his most memorable film, LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972), for this thoughtful and passionate meditation on eroticism, youth and cinema itself.

Dornan somehow manages to render his sculpted beauty moot, which throws a major wrench in the gears for a film dependent on eroticism.

As David, the son of Korean immigrants, navigates his nascent desire, the film rests not on eroticism per se, but on the connective tissue it weaves among sexual and other identities: Spa Night recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming - of - age story into a searching, fresh - faced portrait, highlighting in the process the genres» keen correspondences.

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On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

I interpreted it solely as a divine command... I seized (the book I had been reading], opened it and in silence read the first passage on which my eyes lit: «Not in riots and drunken parties, not in eroticism and indecencies, not in strife and rivalry, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh in its lusts» (Rom.

Be prepared to back up those thoughts with some beautiful compliments and reminiscences on satisfying, sexy moments, to start turning your minds and bodies back toward eroticism and connection.

It's no coincidence that many of the foods commonly touted as aphrodisiacs have sensual connotations: chocolate has a way of silkily melting in the mouth, oysters and red wine are common indulgences on a romantic date night, ruby - ripe pomegranates have a long cultural history that is often linked to eroticism and fertility.

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What is more, the film brings a vivid immediacy to events which goes beyond anything on the written page, be it the face - to - face drama of Jed's dialogues with Joe (conducted in the novel mostly through letters and phone - calls), or the occasional brilliant reds (the balloon, blood, etc.) that flash from the film's otherwise subdued palette, signifying all at once eroticism, danger and passion with a visual economy reminiscent of the colour - codings of Zhang Yimou.

Equally interesting was Love / Sick which presented a number of works focusing on sexuality, including the strangely disturbing eroticism of Larry Clark's voyeuristic Impaled, which sees the director searching for a male who will have sex with a porn star on screen.

Bruno keeps up his end of the bargain and murders Guy's fiancée, in a spectacular, nearly dialogue - free sequence that, in its combination of voyeurism, prowler instinct, and violent eroticism, seems to be the primary influence on De Palma's Dressed to Kill museum pick - up.

But over the course of one idyllic Italian summer in the early 1980s, an unspoken lust blossoms into an affair charged by overwhelming passion — and when they're finally act on the feelings they harbor for one another, director Luca Guadaganino conjures romance and eroticism between the boys with seldom - attained intensity.

Nicolas Roeg turns the beauty and decay of Venice into something terrifying and insists, in an almost Freudian way, on the proximity of eroticism to death.

In «Thirst» — winner of the Prix du Jury in Cannes — commercially and critically acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Park Chan - wook uses this narrative twist to put his own unique and visceral spin on the vampire film's familiar themes of contagion, morality and eroticism.

Stoker is not a vampire film, but it shares some of the eroticism and bodily horror that director Park Chan - wook explored in his previous film Thirst (2009), which provided its own spin on the sex / violence symbolism of vampire mythology.

The Raven especially earns some laughs with lines like, «If I'd have known my work would have such a morbid effect on people, I would've devoted more time to eroticism.»

(On the other had, his nighttime eyeballing of Tierney during a communal dance sequence, with vocal chanting, male grunting, and thumping drums punctuating lots of hip - swinging is surprising for its unsubtle eroticism during Hollywood's subjugation to the dominant Production Code.

GUILTY PLEASURES By Neil Jordan The director of Mona Lisa on saint cinema, eroticism, and Molly Ringwald

That's not a criticism — on the contrary, the completely out - there style of the Countach launched beyond even the eroticism of the Miura to cement the brand from Sant» Agata as a global icon.

Whether it was the eroticism or her style of writing that appealed to readers is a topic of debate, though what perhaps matters the most is that the book went on to sell in millions.

The painting could be read as twist on the idiom «breeding like rabbits,» fusing innocence, eroticism, humor, and death through the artist's frenetic brushstrokes.

Made with Japanese ink on untreated cotton fabric, the works evoke the domestic but have a charged eroticism.

But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.

The works on display manifest a sensitive, but emancipatory form of eroticism.

* Known for the free eroticism of her small, representational drawings and paintings, the impact of Rama's large rubber - on - canvas abstract collages from 1970 and 1971 is just as great.

After an early obsession with female eroticism, he went on to explore another dimension.

For her 2012 retrospective, Thomas insists on the subject as her own, not to mention the eroticism and the art.

But where Picasso's work was about suffering on a large scale (Guernica) and sex at an intimate level (just about everything else), Bourgeois's art is about personal pain and a sexuality that is less about personal intimacy and more about eroticism on a grand scale.

But they cast a wide cultural net woven of found imagery, wabi sabi (the beauty of things worn by being handled, things overlooked or thrown away), crazy quilts, poetry, art history, feminist art, eroticism, intimacy, violence, maps, colonialism, and the continuing war on black and brown bodies.

The couple moved to Paris in 1959, where Ms. Spero steeped herself in European existentialism and produced a series of oil paintings she had begun in Chicago on the themes of night, motherhood and eroticism.

In an essay on Heinecken written in 1976, abstract photographer and colleague Carl Chiarenza wrote: «He uses existing photographs... and their reproductions because they have littered the world and our minds with unlimited examples of every conceivable image of truth, beauty, banality, eroticism, brutality, pornography, consumerism, political idea, personality, idol, and ideal.

The exhibition is structured in chapters whose themes are the man - eating outsider or non-human; the relationship with others and construction of an individual and group identity through a dual movement of incorporation and rejection; the body as an organism capable of transformation, and which feeds on and feeds others; eroticism and all - consuming passion; violence and horror; ritual and sacrifice; and images from childhood, derived from tales and legends.

Reconfigured on panels and heavily accented with rhinestones, these images of empowered women successfully negotiate the tension between personal investigations of eroticism and self - identity.

His paintings mesmerize, whether with their opulent dotted surfaces or bawdy eroticism, their perfumed colors or their riffs on established masterpieces.

An aura of camaraderie, transgression, eroticism and decadence permeates other works on display, which feature Cambridge societies such as the secretive Adonians, famed for their fabled dinners in which fellows and old boys invite the most attractive male undergraduates.

Wesselmann speaks of his family, childhood and education; his U.S. Army service; his early interest in art and drawing; the influence of humor; going to the Cooper Union School on the GI bill; artists who influenced him in his early career; experiences which changed him; early experiments with collage; his first awareness of pop art; collage technique; his affiliation with the Tanager Gallery; his early nudes; eroticism in his paintings; politics and art.

With «Love, Light, and Lyrical Eroticism,» Summer of Love - inspired films from Canyon Cinema; hands - on art; artist - in - residence; extended gallery hours; cocktails.

Poignant reflections on loss, the complexities of motherhood, female stereotypes or marriage, encounters with violence and renewal, as well as explorations of sexuality and eroticism — are all explored with either poignant candor or insightful humor.

Life is spattered in a whirlwind of emotions, and colour radiates an unrestrained eroticism culminating in glowing hearts and feminine attributes set on a pure white background.

Carol Rama (Italian, 1919 — 2015) was a painter whose work dealt with themes of sexuality and eroticism, with frank emphasis on female pleasure.

Richards gently plays with expectations, eroticism and combines locations, bodies, sources in a smooth, rhythmic dance on screen.

Part social activism and eroticism, this stencil heavy work on the streets of LA can -LSB-...]

Sourced from a viral photo of a yoga teacher, the work typifies how Fernández abstracts his figures from internet images, advertising, posters found on the street, or his own photographs — and uses the eroticism and ideality of his nudes to add a layer of the sublime to the visual feed of our lives.

... Crash is the first great novel of the universe of simulation, the world that we will be dealing with from now on: a non-symbolic universe but one which, by a kind of reversal of its mass - mediated substance (neon, concrete, cars, mechanical eroticism), seems truly saturated with an intense initiatory power.