Word: sensuousness
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Perhaps there is a reason; painting is essentially a more voluptuous mode of expression than drawing. To judge from 16th century copies of his now lost Leda and the Swan, he could depict sensuous nudes when he chose. But the drawing that survives of Leda's head shows a lady ethereal and detached. Surviving also are the austere and delicate silverpoint studies of hands, believed to have been made for the portrait of Ginevra dei Benci. The painting itself, in Washington's National Gallery, has been cut off just below the shoulders (though no one knows in which...
Undulating across the stage, eight shapely young ballerinas mimicked the sensuous rhythms of a belly dance. Portraying Bedouin tribesmen, a chorus of 150 men sang a lusty hymn to Allah. At sunrise, the wailing voice of the muezzin filled the concert hall, summoning the faithful to prayer. "O lonely night, last forever," crooned a tenor, looking across the moonlit sands. "You've made me learn to live and love...
...typical audience is a group of innocent people collapsed into a cavern, some out of duty, some out of curiosity, a few out of vanity, sensuous lust, of sheer chance. To borrow an image from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the musical landscape is like the ears of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg poised over a valley of ash in which there rests a supine multitude, with a string quartet in the middle playing uneasily. Yet there precariously exists among these people a fund of instinctive love for art. The problem is that this regard, if it hasn't been ground to pieces...
After half a dozen years in which galleries and museums were touting gimmicks and gadgetry of all kinds, there is a renewed appreciation of what is called painterly painting-painting in which the sensuous quality and texture of the paint-on-canvas is rewarding. Pop, op, mechanical art and the newest of the crowd, earthworks, are still there-but somehow they no longer have the appeal that they used...
Untouched by Guilt. In graphics, Munch was almost compelled to concentrate on one or at the most two aspects of his obsessive Eve. As a result, he often gained a depth totally lacking in larger group portraits of the three women. His sensuous 1895 Madonna captures a strangely melancholy bacchante, in the throes of some primeval ecstasy, clearly his "woman of lust." In Ashes (1889), she appears again, a wanton totally untouched by the guilt that overwhelms her partner-yet at the same time electrified by some outside, elemental force...