Seduced explores the representation of sex in art through the ages at the Barbican gallery. Featuring over 300 works spanning 2000 years, it brings together Roman sculptures, Indian manuscripts, Japanese prints, Chinese watercolours, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and 19th century photography with modern and contemporary art.
Seduced presents the work of around 70 artists including Nobuyoshi Araki, Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt van Rijn and Andy Warhol among others. Stimulating the mind and the senses, provocative and compelling, Seduced provides the historical and cultural framework to explore the boundaries of acceptability in art. Seduced is curated by Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp and Joanne Bernstein.
Here are some of the works displayed in the explicit exhibition.
Andy Warhol: Blowjob , 1963, Black and white, silent, 41 minutes at 16 frames per second
After Michelangelo: Fig Leaf for Michelangelo's David, 1857
Unknown Artist: Woman and man with oysters, Album of Japanese watercolours
Jeff Koons: Ilona on Top (Rosa background) 1990. Oil inks on canvas
I can take some inspiration from the exhibition and take ideas about what work to include. Does it work well having work from all ages or will contemporary work took best alongside other contemporary work. i now have to make a decision on which work pieces i am definitely using in my exhibition.
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