Word: bandanna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century, the nude came into its own, only to disintegrate in the last 15 years under the probing abstractionist brushes of Willem de Kooning and others like him. The exhibition has a rare nude by Maurice Prendergast, a delicate bit of impressionism by Mary Cassatt, an angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though he was, thought most...
...eyes to the similes and metaphors of nature, the recurring likenesses that link man and animal in the great chain of being. "A triangle is the wing on a flea/ And the beak on a bird/ If you'll just look and see . . . A bandit's bandanna/ An admiral's hat/ And in case you don't know it/ The nose...