Word: sensuousness
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Numerous colored slides illustrated Messer's point: the object of art is to say things never said before. During his comparison of Boucher's sensuous "Venus" with De Kooning's grotesque figure of "Woman," Messer commented that modern art attempts to tell the truth even if the subject is not pretty...
...such a definition, Irish Author Lawrence Durrell must live continuously atop a volcano of awareness. His recent four-decker novel of Egypt's Alexandria-which opened with Justine and closed with Clea-is a ferment of emotions and evocations of place that already ranks with the best sensuous and sexual writing of the decade, if not of the century. In it the poet was constantly overriding the novelist and giving an intrinsically imaginative setting and characters a febrile quality that owed more to Durrell's soaring imagination than to his knowledge of life as it is normally lived...
...water-only the shimmering haze at noon making mirage lakes of quicksilver . . . The sun makes an ally of the breeze. It heats the air till it becomes the loo and then sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings up the prickly heat. It produces a numbness which makes the head nod and the eyes heavy with sleep. It brings on a stroke which takes its victim as gently as breeze bears a fluff of thistledown." -Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan...
...Italy's The Adventure embarrassed some spectators after sensuous Monica Vitti had rolled in unmown hay with her leading man. It left them spellbound when the fellow enjoyed a tart on a hotel divan while Mistress Monica twitched with loneliness in her bed upstairs. Roberto Rossellini and the professional cinema crowd hailed the film as "masterful" and "ten years ahead of its time...
...teach its lessons north of the Alps. Returning to Nurenberg, Dürer brought about a flowering of German and Flemish art in the early 16th century that ranks with the great moments of art history. The northern Renaissance was cooler, more metaphysical and clear-lined than its sensuous, rainbow-hued Italian source. If the Italians were sometimes overdramatic, the northerners were sometimes overintellectual, like Dürer himself. Although equally flawed, the masters of the two schools were also equal in greatness...