Sentences with phrase «phallic painting»

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With its phallic sculptures, arty paintings, concrete floors, hidden closets and multiple windows, the house becomes a character of its own, eagerly anticipating each horrible visitor who stops by for mischief.

establishment power: the British Museum, St George's Church at dawn, a comically abbreviated, golden, phallic Post Office Tower... The portraits, rigorous but loosely, freely painted in delicate white - grey - brown tonalities, also turn crucially on light effects.

McCarthy's provocative early performances in the late 1960s and 70s used his own body as the raw material to explore masculinity, where, drawing on performance art and action painting, he substituted the Viennese Actionists» sacrificial use of blood with ketchup and the Abstract Expressionists» paintbrush with phallic false limbs.

This is the period of her most recognisable works, the Accumulation sculptures, in which paint ceases to be an object and finds itself in the domain of sculpture, with an abundance of phallic appendices, and the Infinity nets, large extensions of polka dots that continue to make use of white monochrome.

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.

All are pushed in the direction of bodily mimesis through considered assemblage, the creationof orifice - like holes and phallic protrusions, andby layering and staining with fleshy - colored paint.

-- what are we to make of the white, phallic shape on the left side of painting, pointing down and topped by a large, violent, splashy red brushstroke?

«There's obviously a lot of phallic humor and toilet humor,» he added, looking at a tall, skinny bronze mask smeared with red and yellow paint.

THIS SUMMER IN LOS ANGELES, a hairy, phallic - looking screw painted by Judith Bernstein extended across 180 feet of the exterior of Venus gallery in Boyle Heights.

Since the 1960s, Judith Bernstein has been making aggressively phallic, clamorously energetic paintings and drawings that send up both male chauvinism and the military - industrial complex.

They include a small painting simply titled «# 1» (2000), in which we see a phallic armature moving from gray into light blue; another titled «# 2» (1995), in which a blue crescent bends around to become titanium white; a third, «# 4» (2000 — 1), in which a rising, two - pronged black organic shape ends in a touch of green and ultramarine at either end; and finally «# 5» (1991), in which a red finger - like form passes from black to crimson red.

There is, too, a strong sexual undercurrent in many of the paintings — most notably in «Pleasure Rage», a rearing phallic composition in violent reds and oranges.

Assisted by her friend and supporter Donald Judd, she createdAccumulation sculptures consisting of everyday objects (chairs, a rowboat) covered with hundreds of phallic protrusions, all painted white.

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».

Love Painting, from 1960, contains phallic shapes, I read, and a sense of the illicit.

His varied output includes 18 - foot - tall phallic «stalagmites» dripping with seemingly viscous urethane; rough - hewn ceramics with primordial glazes; paintings done with Robitussin - red nail polish or graffiti - like spray - paint; sculptures of smudged and scratched white minimalist forms; bus - sized cages on wheels; and videos of frustrated male pornstars masturbating to no end.

In another set of interactions, works by the perennially influential Philip Guston appear across three generational shifts: a Social Realist drawing of Klansmen, dated 1930, hangs amid politically progressive paintings by Jacob Lawrence (the great War Series from 1946 - 47), prints by Louis Lozowick, Hugo Gellert and Mabel Dwight, and photographs by Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke - White and Walker Evans; his modestly scaled abstraction, «Dial» (1956), is installed between Mark Rothko's imposing «Four Darks in Red» (1958) and Louise Bourgeois» classically phallic «Quarantania» (1941) in the galleries devoted to Abstract Expressionism; and a large, brooding, late figurative canvas of heads, shoes and eyeballs, «Cabal» (1977), turns up beside paintings by artists twenty - five to thirty years his junior, along with one from Cy Twombly, who was two years older than Guston, born in 1911, and one by Alma Thomas, who lived from 1891 to 1978.

Fury - infused depictions of political figures melded with phallic symbolism underneath soft palettes of gold built over neon paints she has been squeezing from tubes of thrown out containers across her studio space... mantra captions being bull dozed by vehicles of destruction, knives followed by chaotic colorful scratching...

The booth features Wally Hedrick's black paintings, a series in which the artist painted over existing paintings in black paint every time the U.S. invaded another country, culminating in The War Room, an installation he made in the late 1960s; preliminary drawings from performance artist Simone Forti's «News Animations» series, her way of understanding and dealing with world news (one drawing reads «Reason, fear, hatred, compassion, survival» drawn on a figure); and Judith Bernstein's phallic sculptures and 2D works, including a modified American flag topped with phallic balloons contained in glass - covered frames.

Blobs of paint morphed into puffy creatures, and more recently into phallic - nosed alpha males impotently shooting at one another.

The real difference between the «Elegies» and the «Opens» is that the earlier series retains a faint trace of symbolism that can include a Freudian reading of their phallic and testicular shapes, while the latter paintings are more purely visual in their content.

Her 2010 retrospective at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm organized the works into eight categories: early works and beginnings in New York, the Airplane series, A phallic world, Tools, abstract paintings, text - based conceptual works, «the end of painting,» and the Wave series.

By painting on suggestive objects and impaling paintings with phallic materials and holes, a psychosexual undertone extricates the work from mere abstraction.

With their interpenetrating phallic «figures» and invaginated «grounds,» his early paintings suggested a wry, Freudian formalism.

[4] Raymond Mortimer, somewhat depressed by the «gloomily phallic» effect of the triptych, noted: «The Figure in a landscape is no more engaging in form, but here the colour is more varied and the paint a beautiful mosaic.

The piece challenged the male - dominated world of Abstract Expressionism — the paintbrush became phallic, and the horizontal orientation recalled Pollock's drip paintings.

That's the million - dollar question that drives this hilarious mockumentary after someone at Hanover High School mysteriously paints phallic imagery on dozens of cars in the faculty parking lot.