Sentences with phrase «scatological imagery»
During the early 1960s, following his first showing at the New York gallery of Leo Castelli (1907 - 99), he began to include more colour in his painting, together with numerous classical references (Leda and the Swan, the Birth of Venus) and scatological imagery, a process which peaked in the «Ferragosto paintings», as well as his series entitled «Nine Discourses on Commodus» (1963), a portrait of the power - crazy Roman emperor created under the influence of works by Francis Bacon (1909 - 93).
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The venereal / scatological imagery married to a certain Cronenbergian insect ethic and Clive Barker S&M demon thing identify it all as derivative, if inoffensively so.