Word: baring
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Sitting on the floor--except for a big blue bean-bag, there's nowhere else to sit in their common room--Lee is working on another decoration for the bare walls. He and his roommates have acquired one of the large yellow and blue signs advertising Head of the Charles that are hung on street light poles around Cambridge--though they prefer...
...artist, and later still, Ronnie Spector when she ended her career by marrying him. (According to Ronnie's book, "Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life As a Fabulous Ronette," she lived as a prisoner in Phil's L.A. mansion, finally escaping in bare feet with only the clothes on her back...
...case, it is doubly true. Neel's commitment to representing the figure, even when abstraction was the trend, led her to paint the people around her. Family, friends, lovers, artists and writers all appear and reappear with near-brutal honesty, often stripped literally and figuratively, down to their bare skin and most essential character. It is this ability of Neel's to completely reveal her subjects which makes her work stunning. Appropriately, her "Self-Portrait" (1980) awaits visitors at the entrance to the show, on the landing of the Addison's second floor. An 80-year-old Neel sits naked...
...pictures are of bare women, stripped down to their undergarments and untainted by any real external distractions-their naked shoulders, backs, stomachs, legs and buttocks. The women are nude or close to nude, but they're not flesh on display; they exist purely and magnificently in themselves. Every blemish and detail is defined in its natural state, but they aren't imperfections or flaws. Rather, they are celebrations of the beauty of the unaffected womanly body, of mothers and friends and sisters. There is no pretense involved...
...picture and you get to develop it and see how different or how much better they turned out than you originally expected," she explains before showing me a favorite series of photos, taken at last fall's Latin Fire Dance. To capture the images of the well-defined bare calves, feet and dancing heels of the female flamenco and salsa dancers among the clothed pant-legs of bystanders, Faiman literally crouched on the floor of Adams Dining Hall with her camera...