Word: art
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sculptor Roussil hoisted his 12-ft., 700-lb. piece into a truck and drove it to Montreal's fashionable Sherbrooke Street for exhibition in the Art Centre. He arrived late and, finding the Art Centre closed for the night, he casually left his statue out on the lawn...
Montreal has long kept a cautious eye on art in the raw. This time was no exception. When a photographer arrived at the jail to take a picture of Roussil's statue, the police dutifully draped a towel around the father's ample loins (see cut). But their hearts were not entirely in their work. Said one policeman: "There is nothing wrong with this. It is nature. Even the Vatican has pure physiques of this type...
...steeplejack and carpenter, .was not too much disturbed. Said he: "I guess I'll just leave it there for now. It seems to have a nice home." By week's end it looked as though the hubbub had won his Family Group a more promising home. An art dealer offered to put the statue up for sale in his gallery...
Hollywood's well-turned Ava Gardner issued a firm announcement that she was "through with 'cheesecake.'" "For eight years," she said, "I did nothing but leg art ... I spent all my time . . . posing with practically nothing on. I've portrayed all the seasons, all kinds of weather conditions ... I deserve a change...
Bangs & Tangos. "The year 1913," a French critic once wrote, "was distinguished by the arrival in Paris of Foujita and the tango." For a while they were almost equal sensations. An ambitious art student who had thrice been refused admission to the Tokyo Salon, Foujita rightly reasoned that his black bangs, Harold Lloyd glasses and whisker-fine brush drawings would please Parisians more than they did his fellow Japanese. He came to know Montmartre better than he had Fujiyama, strolled its steep streets in a leopard-skin hat, followed by a brace of tabbies on a leash...