Nov
20
Sewellisms #5: Sex, sex, sex
‘in looking at almost any Italian Renaissance nude a man should sense the stirring of his loins, whether he contemplates the post-coital dissatisfaction of the girl who plays Venus for Botticelli elsewhere in the gallery, or Correggio’s orgasmic Io clutching the clammy cloud that is metamorphosed Jupiter between her parted legs in Vienna.’
Brian Sewell, ‘Truth about the sex trade from Edward Kienholz’, Evening Standard, 19 November 2009
Read more: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23771736-truth-about-the-sex-trade-from-edward-kienholz.do
