Sentences with phrase «sensuous works»

Mining an extensive knowledge of art history, as well as of literature, music, and popular culture, Brown creates complex and sensuous works of art that are resolutely of our time.

These sensuous works proved controversial when they were first shown in 1917, leading police to censor his only ever solo exhibition on the grounds of indecency.

Koester's subtle yet sensuous works explore the medium of film.

Originally painted for Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour, this sensuous work of voluptuous bathing nudes is a copy of Boucher's «The Four Seasons: Summer.»

When I accept the invitation its formal beauty extends, and move closer to this seemingly warm, sensuous work, it's clear that something much colder is being suggested.

«Ranging from Edward Hopper's melancholia to the sensuous work of Georgia O'Keeffe, the exhibition offers an extraordinarily wide view of 20th - century American art before Abstract Expressionism.»

Not exact matches

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

My gorgeous 20 - something son who works in a bakery part - time while going to school tells me kneading bread is very sensuous and sexy - feeling... I guess the baker has him kneading bread...

Defined by ultra-feminine chic attitude in relaxed mood, Valentino Dress Spring / Summer 2015 Catalog brings several must - have iconic pieces for women enriched by sensuous patchwork appliqué and intriguing cutout embroidery work on soft fabric with a touch of fresh, gentle shades of pastel tones and signature motif in multicolor.

Emotionally speaking, this is director Luca Guadagnino's most honest and intelligent work to date, a lyrical, sensuous, aching love story that skips all the usual coming - of - age beats in favour of finding a gentler, less conventional rhythm.

In Michell's hands, a relatively working - class set of characters becomes incongruously bourgeois through sensuous camera moves and catalogue - ready tableaux accentuated by not only walls of Kubrickian white, but also a decidedly «upscale» piano score.

The lack of clear explanation for much of the film's occurrences will undoubtedly test the patience of many viewers over the course of 115 minutes, but I found Innocence to be a remarkable, sensuous and bold work which defies categorisation and announces Hadzihalilovic as a truly singular talent.

Our exquisite leather work transforms every surface into a sensuous, tactile feature, creating a unique cabin ambiance that combines practicality with style.

As much as Lexus sought to carry forward the sensuous styling of the LF - LC concept into the production LC, it also worked to introduce a high level of aerodynamic performance to enhance the coupe's handling and ride quality while suppressing wind noise.

whose works embrace the visual language of minimalism and geometric abstraction in a manner that is more sensuous than austere.

Works like «GSWS» (2015) feel sensuous and deceptively simple, yet highly organized.

Such exhilaration can be felt in these powerful, sensuous, and evocative works.

Jeremy Millar, who met with the artist to discuss the book, reflected, «One sees throughout Tillmans's work a longing that moves between engagement and retreat, a fascination for the crowd and all that comes from a shared experience, the «sensuous community,» but also those things which reveal themselves only when we find ourselves alone.

Whether ironic or sensuous, the works in the exhibition explore the visual delight of food and its related themes.

I recently mentioned Benglis's work during a studio visit, and I found myself describing it as open, unguarded, and sensuous, yet also prickly and aggressive — like a Kathy Acker novel.

Many artists began moving away from geometric, hard - edge, and minimal styles, toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions worked in a loose gestural style.

TA You've said elsewhere4 that engagement in the work should be sensuous, that it should involve the way the body senses feeling from visual impact.

Art historian Lucy Lippard wrote at the time: «Certain elements — a central focus (often «empty,» often circular or oval), parabolic baglike forms, obsessive line and detail, veiled strata, tactile or sensuous surfaces and forms, associative fragmentation, autobiographical emphasis, and so forth — are found far more often in the work of women than of men.»

This is also what I take to be the subject of Elizabeth Price's wholly compelling, «User Group Disco», a work about the status of objects through time rendered utterly seductive through the film's sensuous superficiality.

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.

Below is PROVOKR's sampling of the sensuous and enveloping works that were on view.

With their experimental materials and sculptural expression, Hasselknippe's works share much in common with Modernism's lyrical nature - abstraction, especially through her emphasis on the sensuous experience of natural elements translated in abstract forms.

By turns erotic, violent, sensuous, and serene, the works describe visions of bodies mediated by technology, by society, and by social connection.

His work is not sensuous nor does he offer expressive paintwork, and his work disassociates itself from almost all other painting in the history of art: except Mondrian, Suprematism and Russian icon painting.

Reminiscent of Charles Garabedian's ominous and psychologically charged imagery, Gladstone's work engages the viewer in a deeply sensuous, albeit dangerous psychological terrain where anything goes.

So I don't want to discuss sexuality like a sociologist, but rather create a sensuous atmosphere in the work.»

Poolside Magic, in which a man in coat - tails serves a naked woman beside a swimming pool, riffs on themes of sexuality, mutability, magic and the occult, making reference to the vibrant and sensuous landscape and culture of Trinidad, where the artist lives and works.

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.

For the five decades that Norman Bluhm painted, his work became increasingly spiritual, sensuous and personal.

Espírito Santo is best known for his sensuous minimal work that deals with issues of place, structure, material, design, and surface with a rigorous conceptual sensibility.

Other highlights include the works of Tim Robinson's colourful spheres that are bold and vivid, and Bruce Marks beautiful organic forms that have sensuous forms.

The African - American artist is most known for her series of sensuous sculptures made from nylon panyhose — a series she's been working on since the 1970s.

Her work interweaves an austere yet sensuous visual language with music, poetry, and history, as well as the political and philosophical.

Orozco was featured at Documenta XI (2002), where his sensuous terra - cotta works explored the elegance and logic of traditional ceramics — a pointed commentary on Mexican craft and its place in a «high art» gallery space.

These stark themes have pervaded his work, juxtaposed with the use of alluring, sensuous materials such as silk, black glass, and crystals.

Working in oil on canvas, ink on paper, and mixed - media collage, Krasner produced works characterized by a sensuous painterly style, her large - scales collages often formed from the artist's own cut - up paintings and drawings.

Martin's work often raises questions about what it means to be «touched» by cinema and alternates playfully between luring the viewer through sensuous images and lush archetypes, and pushing them back into an awareness of artifice.

«In terms of scale and execution,» the catalogue continued, «these works are the most ambitious works on paper in Richter's oeuvre, possessing an energy and impasto that the artist generally reserves for his major canvases.Untitled (4.5.86) shows the artist's relationship to Abstract Expressionism and his willingness to indulge in sensuous painterly gesture.»

A master of several mediums, including oil painting, charcoal, and multiple printmaking processes, Celmins matches a tangible sense of space with sensuous detail in each work.

Treat's mixed media work condenses into structured outlines of floating vessels and sensuous, tactile surfaces.

The imagery of the gum and eraser sculptures is also manifest in larger single ceramic and bronze works, and latex pieces such as Pink Champagne (1975), a large - scale petal - like structure which in all its fleshy pink and tactile softness becomes a highly sensuous and seductive evocation of the female form.

According to Van Gelder, Louise saw the photographs as an extension of her own work, and of course she did — despite its sensuous irreverence, her work has always been surprisingly holistic.

Jack Hanley Gallery will present «Spieltrieb,» a group show of works that combine the formal and the sensuous.

His paintings, most of them large - scale works featuring African - American subjects, are composed in a style that blends social realism with outsider art and demonstrate a critical, self - conscious and sensuous eye.

The series, in which a man in coat - tails serves a naked woman beside a swimming pool, riffs on themes of sexuality, mutability, magic and the occult, making reference to the vibrant and sensuous landscape and culture of Trinidad, where Chris Ofili lives and works.