Sentence examples for explicit painting from inspiring English sources

What has happened to the nation that gave us Courbet's explicit painting The Origin of the World, among other masterpieces of French sauce?

A typically exuberant and explicit painting, it was made the year after the artist's works were notoriously confiscated from an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland.

McKenzie has worked as a porn model, and her oeuvre is sometimes sexually explicit (one painting shows her eating a bowl of soup below a framed image of a woman masturbating); the tabloids would certainly have taken an interest.

This explicit novel paints a bleak picture of the isolated alcoholic teen's underground life as she adds painful tattoos to her back and pierces her tongue.

Even when such mythological components as cherry trees becoming trolls, mountains becoming ice queens, and melting snow transforming into mighty horses aren't so explicit, Astrup would paint scenes where the mountains were ablaze with occult fire rituals or the abundant, rain-soaked greenery was bathed in supernatural light.

The Hicks painting is explicit in its expression of community, but a number of depictions of various towns more or less in detail make the point tacitly.

In moving from symbolic to contextualist explanations of music, it is well to note that a source of great confusion, in the former, is the fact that tone painting (with explicit signals that yield, when the code is understood, designative meanings) is widely regarded as musical symbolism.

Long perspective vistas, classical architecture and fragments of statuary make it explicit that di Chirico paints in a land haunted by its past.

Contemporary artists emerging from the Glasgow include Douglas Gordon (1966–), working in the medium of installation art, Susan Philipsz who works in sound installations, Richard Wright, noted for his intricate wall paintings and Lucy McKenzie (1977–), whose painting is often sexually explicit.

Race becomes explicit in a second wall painting, which consists of two versions of the name Ivory L. Brown.

Whether or not a particular painting has an explicit religious iconography, admitting perishable foodstuffs into the idealized realm of art inevitably conjures Jesus's words from the Gospel According to John: "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth in me shall never thirst".