Sentence examples for sensual subject from inspiring English sources
A year earlier, Matisse had offended Picasso with the audacity of his "Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)," which Picasso judged, accurately but pejoratively, as the oxymoron of a sensual subject in a decorative style.
It was the freedom and creativity with which Rodin used these practices – along with his activation surfaces of sculptures through traces of his own touch and with his more open attitude toward bodily pose, sensual subject matter, and non-realistic surface – that marked Rodin's re-making of traditional 19th century sculptural techniques into the prototype for modern sculpture.
Simply spending Saturday studying so many sensual subjects - Shhh! pic.twitter.com/o6Woo1fr.
Young, voluptuous, discreet and endlessly patient, Walter was Picasso's most sensual and compliant subject; even her dreams were seemingly accessible to him, in fervid portraits like "Le Rêve".
In the early Enlightenment, especially in France, the emphasis is upon the discernment of an objective rational order, rather than upon the subject's sensual aesthetic pleasure.
The normative postulate to guarantee similar possibilities of need satisfaction to future generations like the ones we enjoy today can therefore not only be restricted to the direct use of nature as a supplier of raw materials and sink for harmful substances but has to include nature as a subject of sensual, contemplative, spiritual, religious and aesthetic experience.
Within the pages of the 1999 edition of Teenage Smokers, Templeton's images of cigarette-smoking youths manage to be painstakingly cool and nearly sensual at times, despite the innately taboo subject matter at hand.
The three young people's discovery of sensual and romantic love -- a subject studiously ignored by Communist propaganda -- is intensified and justified by Balzac and by the suitcase's other forbidden authors.
If only Mr. Savall and his AliaVox label had taken care to provide clearer, more straightforward booklet notes on what is -- for all its sheer aural and sensual delights -- an arcane and complicated subject.
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