Sentences with phrase «porn paintings in the show»
The porn paintings in the show are brilliant in their combination of content supported by the materials.
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The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili has been a bit chary, let's say, of showing in New York City ever since a certain Mayor Rudolf Giuliani threatened to defund the Brooklyn Museum for showing his absolutely gorgeous The Holy Virgin Mary — a 1996 painting of a black Madonna with a bared breast made from dried elephant dung, surrounding by putti made from female genitalia cut from porn magazines — as part of the 1999 stateside leg of Saatchi Gallery's «Sensation» show.
Tell me about the porn paintings you showed in New York at Max Protech.
The show features large - scale drawings of nudes in idyllic settings, photographs of dreamy tabletop dioramas made from collaged porn images and family photos and paintings of tulips that reference Dutch masters.
Whereas the works in his 2007 show at Honor Fraser retained a distinctive figuration — painted black - and - white bodies lifted from lingerie ads, 1970s yearbooks, and porn magazines, and portraits of Mexican wrestlers and geishas, all of which were partially consumed by anxious, repeating brushstrokes — the artist has now loosened his grip on unequivocal source material, allowing a minimal abstraction