The word
"phallic" refers to something that resembles or represents the male genital organ, the penis. It is often used to describe objects, symbols, or images that symbolize male power or masculinity.
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I suppose it pertains to the presence
of phallic forms in nature, but this shape, in several cultures, religions and mythology, often expresses connections to spiritual realms.
The Men and Machines series, showing working men with various types of mechanical equipment, portrays Cold - War era images of technological advancements and plays on the cliché of machines as
phallic symbols of male sexual power.
You start at Phra Nang Beach at the opposite end to the Princess Cave (the small cave filled
with Phallic symbols, left by couples hoping to get pregnant).
Large scale vegetable sculptures in
phallic shapes are offset by large format photography against various walls.
Iconic pieces on view, spanning sculpture, photography, and painting, include
phallic sculptures by Sarah Lucas and Lynda Benglis, photographic portraits by Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin, and plucky paintings of male genitalia by Celia Hempton.
The body is also evoked in the «Men's Room» section of the exhibition (entered through a Felix Gonzalez - Torres beaded curtain) by Carroll Dunham's cartoon - like rendering of
phallic forms («Shape with Points,» 1989 - 90) or the urination process Andy Warhol employed for his 1978 «Oxidation Paintings» — even as gender identifications are complicated by «BC (4646),» Sterling Ruby's 2013 quilt - inspired painting.
Both Ray Gun and Soft Drainpipe may be seen
as phallic symbols.
For
phallic symbolism, Dorothy Malone stroking a model of her tycoon daddy's oil derrick is hard to top.
(Once you're on the lookout
for phallic symbols, it's pretty hard not to find them.)
Look out for punchy, raunchy Feminism on PPOW stand with Betty Tompkins and Carolee Schneemann and new aggressively
phallic drawings by Judith Bernstein from LA's The Box.
Two OkCupid billboards have been rejected by the city of Portland after ad space vendors decided they were
too phallic for public display.
For this work, Benglis smeared Day - Glo paint across the gallery floor invoking «the depravity of the «fallen» woman» or, from a feminist perspective, a «prone victim of
phallic male desire».
However, rather than being perceived as passive objects of male pleasure as stereotyped by the pornography industry, the women here are seen as active protagonists; they are given agency and the masculine element, symbolised
by phallic shaped fruits and meats, becomes an object for their consumption.
Woolford's performance explores the central role given to the male sexual organ in both American art and politics, perpetuating the tradition of
phallic humor in popular culture.
The result of that mission in Fulfilment Centre is a somewhat
phallic painting of the Hindu elephant - headed god Ganesh placed over a Nike t - shirt canvas, the iconic tick set jarringly off - kilter in a way emphasising its masculine shape.
In this process, mountains turn into breasts and trees
into phallic pillars, while the boundaries between human form, mountains and plants become fluid.
Radical feminist separatism is transcendence of the fear of separation
from phallic separaters and acknowledgment that separation from Self has already happened.
In this definition, once again the point is that women have already been fragmented and that radical feminist separatism is action which counters
phallic separatism, separation of women from ourselves and our Selves.
These large yellow bananas caused the Breen office to sit up and make several objections to their, um,
phallic nature.
Hehe, I thought of that yesterday when we discussed bananas and
phallic desserts Perfect timing indeed!
Like many villains of many crime films of the 1940s and»50s, Scalise is subtly coded as homosexual, as he's surrounded by a cadre of fit young henchman and given to melodramatically using nasal spray while issuing threats — an act involving a
somewhat phallic object that also marks him as less than a man.
Part of me will never accept
phallic pillars and apelike crouches as a measure of feeling.
Richard Hamilton gave pop art its name when he wrote it on a strongman's
phallic lollipop in his famous 1956 collage Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
There is some debate on whether it qualifies as passing the Bechdel test since their conversations are all about the eponymous alien, but most agree that the alien is asexual, albeit
quite phallic.
The looping, dangling web, humorously trailing shoelaces, is decidedly genderqueer in its feminism —
phallic protuberances poke and sag, just as indentations and mandala - like sections radiate.
Actually, GR, they're all into
phallic worship believing themselves to be min - gods.
Everything on Venus, except for one
rather phallic feature, is named for a goddess or a famous woman.
Davis was hardly the first to succumb to the lure of the corpse flower (not to be confused with Amorphophallus titanum, which has a
giant phallic protrusion and also happens to smell like rancid meat and bear the nickname corpse flower).
This veggies
phallic appearance no doubt has something to do with its legendary aphrodisiac status, but the goods are inside, too.
We get the set pieces: a moment of truth in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial - and a chase scene down the Mall toward the Washington Monument's threatening
phallic power.
(Welch), naturally — deserves getting prodded about by a bull while a collection of bad guys poke at her with
phallic shunts.
When the eight - year - old kid calls his older brother a «d --», it's your right to be offended that
such phallic slang should be uttered in a family film, or you can take it as a homage to «E.T.» when Elliot calls his brother «penis breath».
Being plonked in a randomly generated world, it's up to you to make your own fun, be that by building
suspiciously phallic towers or recreating all of the cities from Game of Thrones.
Cabin date rape and teen pregnancy are represented here by the rude insertion of
phallic blades through water slides.
Jone's even designed a brand new creature
whose phallic design would fit right in with the Silent Hill 3 «s creature roster.
Jone's even designed a brand new creature whose
phallic design would fit right in with the Silent Hill 3 «s creature roster.
The giant designs in the graphic novel and upcoming big - screen adaptation take inspiration from other giant monsters in pop culture, like the Ents from Lord Of The Rings, or the kaijū from Pacific Rim, but as the creators tell us, the designs Niimura originally came up with were a bit
more phallic.
After brief stops in which a hyper - sexualized, Charo - voiced frog teaches Thumbelina to shake her tiny money - maker, a sleazy moustachioed junebug (Gilbert Gottfried) abducts her to be its wife, and Bluth
presents phallic stems and pregnant bulbs to the point of indecency, the message of «there's someone for everyone» (or, closer to the mark, an «Eye of the Beholder» - like «stick with your kind, freak») comes ham - fisting home.
Fertility shrines are carved into the rock face here, with local Thais
placing phallic symbols in them to bring them good luck.
Actually, there are two caves next to each others filled in with gigantic
wooden phallic symbols.
This enormous scale was seen most paradigmatically in Bilbao's large gallery where Richard Serra's Snake (1996) was installed for the opening exhibition of the museum and in MoMA's massive atrium where Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk (1963 - 69) stood alone at the center of the museum like a
large phallic monument to the patriarchy for the opening installation of the Taniguchi redesign.
The final projection is a heavily stylised elevation view of the buildings
phallic tower again on fire.