The tone of Frear's voiceover narration sounds at first like a fizzy champagne toast to fin de siecle decadence, but the story's tone gradually grows serious, even darker, as it follows the pathway
where eroticism crosses into emotion.
Not exact matches
But
where Picasso's work was about suffering on a large scale (Guernica) and sex at an intimate level (just about everything else), Bourgeois's art is about personal pain and a sexuality that is less about personal intimacy and more about
eroticism on a grand scale.
The couple moved to Paris in 1959,
where Ms. Spero steeped herself in European existentialism and produced a series of oil paintings she had begun in Chicago on the themes of night, motherhood and
eroticism.
Barbara explained that in order to have a fulfilling and truly intimate sexual connection, a couple not only need the
eroticism, but they both have to get vulnerable with each other — that that's
where the closeness and connection ie intimacy truly comes from.