Taking off from the Dutch 17th-century still life known as a vanitas, a work containing symbols of mortality, the photographer Laura Letinsky deploys props like half-nibbled sweets, wilted blossoms, dirty glasses and crumb-strewn tablecloths in artfully unartful arrangements that are as flatly unders

Elegant, Melancholy, Sexy

The relation between art and female beauty, art and pornography, female models and models of art, all have been a constant theme for Marlene Dumas. Her work recalls the painterly gestures of Expressionism, whilst combining the critical distance of Conceptual art with the pleasures of eroticism. Some

Distorted, Erotic, Feminine, Feminist, Figurative, Figurative painting, Playful, Sensual, Sexy

The leading poet of Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period, one of the founders of Russian Futurism movement. Originally Mayakovsky planned to become an artist. His early poems have strong painterly visions and sequences in many of his works recall film techniques. Mayakovsky was d

Angry, Ecstatic, Erotic, Futurism, Melancholy, Monumental, Moody, Playful, Political, Profane, Rebel, Rough, Sexy

"To me, the television is sex, the bed is sex, the sky is sex, you're sex, I'm sex, everything is sex." Annie Sprinkle flies bare-breasted and smiling in the face of art-world pretension. Her work, a marriage of performance, pornography, spirituality, and science, is the undiluted product of 25 y

Bad girl art, Ebullient, Feminist theater, In-your-face, Joyful, Opulent, Repetitive, Sexy, Technology