SEXUALITY IN ART

Sexuality has often seemed a kind of avant-garde art.

In our times, particularly sexual re-evaluation and revolution have constantly been linked with their artistic counterparts.

Art which deals with sexual matters is considered 'advanced', provocative and uncompromised by the demands of our society.

Figurative painting has continued to make powerful use of sexual imagery, despite its traditional means.

Here some examples with works signed by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973),  Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010), Jean Rustin (1928-2013), Delmas Howe (1935-), John Kirby (1949-) and George Dureau(1930-2014), also a photographer. 

Pablo Picasso, "La Douceur"

Pablo Picasso, "Bacchic scene with minotaur"

Sylvia Sleigh, "The Brooklyn rail"

Sylvia Sleigh, "Turkish bath"

Jean Rustin

Jean Rustin, "Dans la chambre", 1990

Delmas Howe

Delmas Howe



John Kirby


George Dureau



George Dureau

THE WORLD OF HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ITALY

Really the golden age of creativity in several artists giving us wonderful master pieces showing how beauty and terror co-existed.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

1452-1519, Anchiano, Florence

"Mona Lisa"

"San Jeronimo in the desert"

MICHELANGELO

1475-1564, Caprese

"David"

"The torment of Saint Anthony"

"Leda and the swan"

RAPHAEL

1483-1520, Urbino

"Madonna",  oil on wood panel

OSMAN AHAMED

Born 1962 in Sulaimaniya, Iraq.

Graduated from the Institute of Art in Sulaimaniya, in 1985.

MA in drawing from Camberwell Scholl of Arts, London, in 2007.

His art thematised both the complexity and tragedy of the Kurdish genocide and we must consider him the artist and the witness to that, documenting and memoralising the horrors and the suffering of his people.

His works are sometimes compared to Goya's  but friends describe him as a Kurdish Toulouse -Lautrec because of his small stature and, mostly for his observational style.

He is also researcher at the Kurdology Centre for Kurdish Studies at the University of Sulaimaniya. And has given lectures, and a guest speaker on many panels.

Exhibited his works of art in the Middle East and Europe, including  Tate Britain in London.

SALVADOR DALI

11 May 1904 - 23 January 1989

Born just 116 years ago in Figueras, Spain!

He was known as a Surrealist, Cubist and Dada painter but also in drawing, sculpture, jewelry, photography, writing and films.

Dali liked to use extensive symbolism in his art.

He was expelled from the Surrealist movement because of his constant clashes with some of other members. Neverthless, he became the most influential of the Surrealist artists and one of the most famous painter in the 20th century.

(See also 3/8/2017 and 11/5/2018)

"Divine Comedy", Dante

"The burning giraffe", 1937

"Don Quixote de la Mancha"

"Metamorphosis of Narcissus", 1937

 "On hold", 1975

"Tuna fishing", 1967

"Three nudes"

RARINDRA PRAKARSA

Nasceu em Jacarta, Indonésia.

É um fotógrafo/poeta pelas imagens que nos oferece.

Começou a fotografar em 1995 e o seu tema talentosamente explorado é o retrato do dia-a-dia da população da sua terra natal.