Venus, Amaury-Duvel

A From October 20, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza exhibit Tears of Eros , an exhibition on eroticism and its many facets.

The intimate relationship between sexual instincts and death instincts-Eros and Thanatos in the visual arts is the theme of this exhibition, which borrows the title of a book by Georges Bataille: Les larmes d'Eros and also incorporates some of his ideas about eroticism: the need for beauty, temptation and transgression of a prohibition, or assimilation of the erotic to the religious sacrifice.

The exhibition consists of paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos and, as the curator, have no place in it all looks and all sexual orientations.

San Sebastian, Jose Ribera

So, includesarchetypes such as the femme fatale, fetish erotic gay icons ... There is voyeurism, sadomasochism, and even a dark side: vampirism and cannibalism (and I enjoy thinking about the many visits I get from google after what I just writing).

One of the curiosities of this exhibition is that in the Museum Store can be purchased condoms, several news media have picked up with great joy and resourceful to holders of those that areso fond of fellows, and put it on, Make this ... with art (the world) or bold captions such as: Baroness Thyssen sell condoms (The Free Voice).

Andromeda Rubens

Women on the waves, Gustave Courbet

Nastassja Kinski, Richard Avedon

The Snake Charmer Henri Rousseau

Tears of Eros
From October 20, 2009 at 31January 2010
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado 8, 28014 Madrid
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If you are interested in the topic, you must visit the web History of erotic art , Anarkasis.

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Lisette Model (Vienna, 1901-New York, 1983) began studying music with Arnold Schoenberg, which he gave in 1933 to study painting in Paris with André Lhote (whose students included Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Hoyningen-Huene). He also became interested in photography, acquiring a basic education of her younger sister Olga Seybert, professional photographer, and then moving on to study withthe portraitist Rogi Andre.

During a visit to her mother in Nice in 1934 conducted a series of portraits in the Promenade des Anglais which are among the best known of his work, because that would show the characteristics of it.

Lisette Model in 1938 he settled in Manhattan. He made his living as a photographer, publishing his work regularly in the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.

In 1951 he was invited to teach at the New School for SocialResearch in New York, where her longtime friend Berenice Abbott also taught photography. His most famous pupil was Diane Arbus . Model continued to teach photography to his death in New York in 1983.

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