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

Bonnard was intimate with all the women he painted: he knew them, as it were, by hand. In his soft, blurred splotches of bright color lies the closeness of the caress, the insights the fingers have divined. Indeed, Bonnard did not ask his models to sit for long, if at all; from a brief sketch he fill

Bright, Domestic, Erotic, Post-impressionism, Sensual, Serene, The nabis, Tranquil

Wafted across the rustling waters by spring breezes, the naked goddess alights on shore, long-limbed and emanating beauty that could only come from a more powerful and mythical world. Her arrival on her lovely scallop-shell boat, with her blonde hair flowing about her, signals a new era. She is born

Erotic, Ethereal, Fantastic, Mythic, Playful