# Erotic Abstract Art Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140 "2010-10-05T17:17:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ladymarmalade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@Ladymarmalade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladymarmalade)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/1 "2010-10-05T17:17:17Z")
What are some, shall we say, “concealed” or abstract works of erotic art? The kind you could put in your bedroom to set a mood, without it being too overtly sexual for kids and etc. to see? Along the lines of Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” perhaps? Also if there is a site where (cheap) works like this are for sale, that would be great. Thanks!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/2 "2010-10-05T17:25:32Z")
I have these two in my bedroom: [http://www.art.com/products/p13023082-sa-i2267452/pablo-picasso-nude.htm?sorig=0](http://www.art.com/products/p13023082-sa-i2267452/pablo-picasso-nude.htm?sorig=0) [http://www.art.com/products/p10312331-sa-i767277/salvador-dali-female-figure-with-head-of-flowers-1937.htm?sorig=0](http://www.art.com/products/p10312331-sa-i767277/salvador-dali-female-figure-with-head-of-flowers-1937.htm?sorig=0) ---
**Author:** ![Rain\_Soaked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rain\_Soaked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rain_Soaked)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/3 "2010-10-05T17:57:22Z")
Picasso’s [The Dream](http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/art-print/The-Dream-7601.html). Guess what she’s dreaming of? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/4 "2010-10-05T18:37:37Z")
[Classy yet clandestinely subliminal](http://loop48.com/bump/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hotdiggitydogart.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/5 "2010-10-05T23:39:59Z")
[Georgia O’Keefe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_OKeefe)’s work has been accused of being highly vaginal. Look at some samples, you’ll probably agree, as do I. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/6 "2010-10-07T17:01:17Z")
[Santana’s first album cover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santana_album_1969.jpg) contained nudes hidden in the lion’s mane. Sorry, coudn’t find a larger image. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/7 "2010-10-07T18:01:41Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > [Santana’s first album cover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santana_album_1969.jpg) contained nudes hidden in the lion’s mane. Sorry, coudn’t find a larger image. [Here](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_04JC1KBfcZk/S69QWkR4doI/AAAAAAAAG_w/QKPOyEstqfw/s1600/SEPT+1ST+15261.jpg) is a larger image. I think there’s only one nude in the image. Actually, one topless woman in a grass skirt. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/8 "2010-10-07T19:19:32Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:7, topic:556140”] > [@TriPolar](#): > > [Santana’s first album cover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santana_album_1969.jpg) contained nudes hidden in the lion’s mane. Sorry, coudn’t find a larger image. [Here](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_04JC1KBfcZk/S69QWkR4doI/AAAAAAAAG_w/QKPOyEstqfw/s1600/SEPT+1ST+15261.jpg) is a larger image. I think there’s only one nude in the image. Actually, one topless woman in a grass skirt. [/QUOTE] I recall the single ‘official’ nude. As teenage boys, we ‘perceived’ a few more. I wanted to purchase a piece of milled maple burl that had that quality (that maybe has a name) or suggesting the appearance of erotic images within. A cabinet maker had claimed it first for that same quality. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/9 "2010-10-07T19:25:23Z")
How about subliminal [erotic art](http://media.musictoday.com/store/bands/2852/product_large/RWA50324.JPG) you can wear? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/10 "2010-10-07T20:00:00Z")
Well, there are certainly more faces in that album-cover art, though it’s debatable whether there are any bodies that go with them, and whether those bodies are clad. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/11 "2010-10-07T20:06:22Z")
Mrs. Barone’s sculpture! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/12 "2010-10-07T20:08:39Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > How about subliminal [erotic art](http://media.musictoday.com/store/bands/2852/product_large/RWA50324.JPG) you can wear? That’s the picture I was going to post…or at least whichever picture I could find from that scene. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/13 "2010-10-07T20:55:06Z")
> [@Rain\_Soaked](#): > > Picasso’s [The Dream](http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/art-print/The-Dream-7601.html). Guess what she’s dreaming of? Someone placing a splint on the bones in her neck? Duct-tapeing her forehead back together? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/14 "2010-10-09T02:52:49Z")
You might check out Adam Connelly’s [work](http://grievousbodilycharm.com/2010/06/09/what-do-you-see-here/). ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/15 "2010-10-09T03:16:07Z")
Nice link! ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/16 "2010-10-09T04:49:21Z")
[http://mytechquest.com/interesting/do-you-see-9-dolphins/](http://mytechquest.com/interesting/do-you-see-9-dolphins/) Supposedly, kids see the nine dolphins in the and not the intimate couple. I’m skeptical but have no kids on whom to test. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/17 "2010-10-09T04:58:18Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > [http://mytechquest.com/interesting/do-you-see-9-dolphins/](http://mytechquest.com/interesting/do-you-see-9-dolphins/) > > Supposedly, kids see the nine dolphins in the and not the intimate couple. I’m skeptical but have no kids on whom to test. Hard to find the couple again once I saw the dolphins. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/18 "2010-10-09T23:10:19Z")
Questions about the Arts are better posted in Cafe Society rather than General Questions. Moved. **samclem** Moderator, GQ ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/19 "2010-10-09T23:30:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > > [@standingwave](#): > > > > [http://mytechquest.com/interesting/do-you-see-9-dolphins/](http://mytechquest.com/interesting/do-you-see-9-dolphins/) > > > > Supposedly, kids see the nine dolphins in the and not the intimate couple. I’m skeptical but have no kids on whom to test. > > Hard to find the couple again once I saw the dolphins. 🙂 Really? I immediately saw the couple and thought to myself “what dolphins?” I had to look at it a moment longer for the dolphins to appear for me. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/20 "2010-10-09T23:41:37Z")
[On of my favorite meditations on erotic abstract art.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmak85DHrSI) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140.md?page=2)