The word
"sensuous" means something that is highly pleasing to the senses, especially to touch, sight, or taste, often associated with physical pleasure or enjoyment.
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Ken Johnson: Painted
with sensuous neatness in a nicely simplifying representational style, Alexi Worth's pictures present curious visual puzzles slyly charged with sexual undercurrents....
Since 1987, abstract waterfall imagery in her paintings has continued her simultaneous engagement with the real and the metaphysical, grounding intellectual investigation
in sensuous experience.
Close to the sublime, especially if you have a thing
for sensuous Italians of either gender unleashing ballads of soaring romantic masochism.
But given its competition, rarefied as it may be, the 2005 Bentley Continental GT qualifies: All - wheel drive, a 552 - horsepower 12 - cylinder engine with twin turbochargers, and styling
as sensuous as any vehicle available at any price.
Kehow is «known for her intimate abstract constructions of
sensuous color in still lifes, self portraits, and figures...»
There's an extra crease line in the side profile too, which BMW's designers say give this car a more powerful aesthetic compared to the softer, more
sensuous curves of the coupe version.
He experiments with
sensuous surface finishes, compiling multiple layers of pain...
Hence, the notion of matter should be reduced to the notion of a togetherness of
sensuous qualities.
This dress has very
sensuous lines as is true of most of Mugler designs.
Hewing to
more sensuous materials and the intimate processes of the handmade, women sculptors began to articulate a female sensibility in their work, shifting the dialogue and laying the foundations for a revolution.
Voluptuous color and luxurious interpenetrations of
sensuous forms conspired to make messy, elegant, often witty abstract pictures.
The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili became an international celebrity early as a result of the «Sensation» exhibition, then morphed his style away from the collaged and encrusted canvases that brought him renown to create
sensuous paintings of Afrocentric fantasias — works that are irresistible to collectors but occupying a lower public profile.
It's been two years since Ko's last solo exhibition, but the acclaimed Washington sculptor — whose
sensuous works are created by wrestling thick, tightly coiled rolls of adding - machine tape into elegant abstractions — is back with a fresh batch of work.
«Only he who conceives art through
sensuous feelings can grasp it whole; whoever would master it conceptually will possess it only in its parts.»
In the work of Masullo, she finds that «the images are enchanting, but for me the love of paint is missing,» while the five painters work on view at Edward Thorp each have «a very different approach to image and materials, each with a rich and
sensuous use of paint.»
It is a
very sensuous experience and I can say that some mornings after I put back my clothes on I could feel the same warmth and excitement that comes with the sexual desire!
«It embodies a symbiosis of emotion and intelligence with breathtaking proportions and a puristic, surface - oriented design with
sensuous shapes.
The works on view, a selection of oil paintings and works on paper including acrylic and crayon, display a joyful exuberance expressed
through sensuous black lines and both geometric and amorphous shapes that are reminiscent of both Miró and Matisse.
Rather, a humbleness and playfulness join in the general
sensuous nature of the viewing experience.
These are joyous environments that visitors can wander into and be enveloped
by sensuous dotted forms.
The eye basks in front of Hoyland's wide fields of glowing red and green like a cat before a fire, immersed in
sensuous pleasure.
The audacious displays of new and old, sacred and profane, surrealist and realist, continued across the building's four floors and many rooms, each curated through unabashedly
sensuous visual affinities between the historic palazzo and artworks.
Terence Davies's talent for
creating sensuous images conveniently masks how little of this feeling actually emerges from the plot these images illustrate.
Staying true to the original sketch from Acura's first female designer, Michelle Christensen, the ZDX
features sensuous curves, deeply sculpted shoulders and strong character lines.
On the contrary, it is precisely the wholehearted celebration of the otherness of male and female that makes
sensuous love realizable.
Removeable doors aid convenient cleaning, but the real focus here is
on sensuous curves — both on the outside and within.
Small but highly
sensuous objects by Ernesto Neto look like sex aids, hardly items to be secured on a gallery plinth and gawked at.
Dancy's enticing
sensuous figures often appear central in lotus position, and she uses wide and vibrating brush strokes of acrylic and ink on dyed or bleached cotton and canvas.
When Trisha Brown died in March 2017, The New York Times paid tribute to her by remarking that «few dance inventors have so combined the cerebral and
sensuous sides of dance as Ms. Brown did, and few have been as influential.»
Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco reveals the artist's imaginative and deeply
sensuous world, where ornately decorated species — both human and animal — are rendered in seductive line and colour.
With an exquisitely
sensuous touch and using luminous colors, he isolates, simplifies and flattens things like pitchers, brooms and dustpans to the brink of pure yet sumptuous abstraction.
We have been encouraged by Sam Keen to
enjoy sensuous transcendence in the name of dancing gods.
The surprisingly cohesive body of work in Hahn's New York solo debut contends with the history of traditional figurative painting, in which female subjects possess
sensuous beauty offset, generally, by a benzo - like tranquility.
According to Fashion Designer Ritambhara Paliya — With the blend of modern trend, my collection of Ruffles N Chains add life to the contemporary Indo western outfits that are sure to add
sensuous appeal to every lady's natural beauty.
You'll also be able to witness a Tango show — the world's
most sensuous dance — in Buenos Aires, a city where romance permeates the air.But that's not all... a highlight of this South America tour is a visit to Iguassu Falls, where you'll experience the falls on both the Brazilian and Argentine sides.
Spicy, earthy hues puddle juicily into post-industrial plastic (sub) continents that drift across all sides, embedding the burlap grid
into sensuous formal arrangements.»
The drawings in the exhibition range from layers of straight lines meticulously drawn in black graphite pencil lead, to rows of delicately rendered wavy lines in colored pencil; from bold black - and - white geometric forms, to bright planes in acrylic paint arranged like the panels of a folding screen; from
sensuous drawings created by dozens of layers of transparent washes, to a tangle of vibratory orange lines on a green wall, and much more.
This open four - seater with a classic fabric soft top combines puristic,
sensuous design with high long - distance...
• Eithne Carr RHA (b. 1946) Dublin - born abstract artist, noted for
sensuous images, expressive brushwork.
When Twombly photographs a lemon, they become unrecognizable and yet deeply
sensuous textures, just pure texture or shadow in their blurring.
In his monochrome paintings of the 1960's, Marden uses the trope of Minimalism's riposte to rhetorical painting — yet he employs a
deeply sensuous treatment: slicked - up, paint - plastered canvases coated with beeswax, in earthy colors of grays and murk.
Having girls means it is a challenge coming out with a costume looking like it was meant for a kid and
not sensuous.