Art’s Most… Erotic, Horrific, Satanic
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When it comes to adventurous sex, is there anything new under the sun? Waldemar Januszczak’s journey through sex and desire will take him to key examples scattered along the story of art. From the very beginning, sex and fertility have been crucial artistic subjects. From cave art to the art of ancient Pompeii, from Japan to India, from Toulouse-Lautrec to Stanley Spencer, artists have dealt enthusiastically with sex and arousal. Why?
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Horror is one of art’s greatest and oldest subjects. Deep inside the artistic imagination there are some very dark places. And throughout history this darkness has bubbled up in a nightmarish art that is determined to frighten or scare or appal us. Over and over again, artists have used darkness as a weapon. Why?
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Describing evil - putting a face to it - has long been an important artistic duty. Every civilisation, from the Assyrians to the Greeks, from the Egyptians to the Hindus, has tried to imagine the malignant forces that shape and interfere in human life. And what fun they have had doing it! Putting a face to the Satan has been one of the great tests of the artistic imagination. This film will trace, highlight and enjoy the results.
Award winning art critic Waldemar Januszczak explores three of art’s most controversial and important subjects in an adventurous international journey.
Art’s Most Erotic sees him travelling from Japan to India to find the most explicit art ever made and to ask why art has always been so interested in sex.
In Art’s Most Horrific Waldemar confronts terrifying displays of blood, gore and death, and wonders why art is so obsessed with horror.
Finally, in Art’s Most Satanic he goes looking for the Devil, the ultimate shape-shifter, who keeps popping up in art in a wicked assortment of disguises.
