Word: bathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast variety of impressionists and post-impressionists-a variety so rich that it provides offbeat works of artists whose characteristic style has become almost too familiar. Sāo Paulo has, for instance, several Renoir nudes in his well-known manner. But the eye-opener is the full-length Bather with Griffon, painted in 1870 when Renoir was still seeing through the eyes of his mentor Courbet. It depicts Renoir's first mistress, Lise Tréhot. No later Renoir nude was more lushly sensuous...
...center of the house is the sparsely furnished, 67½-ft.-long great hall, used for formal receptions and large cocktail parties. On its walls hang 16 prize paintings by impressionists and postimpressionists, including a voluptuous Renoir Bather, and a darkly rich, superbly foreshortened Degas Girl on a Cushion. For any other collection, these 16 would be more than enough, but the adjoining dining room is fairly aglow with the Kreegers' most spectacular collection-within-a-collection. Eight mistily magnetic Monets offer a wide range of insights into the painter's gifts, from the crisp precision...
...only slowly adopts the fads of the West. Miniskirts are just now appearing on Helsinki's streets. The Finn's first love remains the sauna bath. More than half a million families have their own private steam rooms, where temperatures rise to 275°F as the bather briskly whips his body with wet birch branches before dashing out and leaping into a frigid lake or snow bank. The sauna is said to develop the quality of sisu-a combination of courage, stamina, tenacity and stubbornness. Sisu indeed is Finland-and is perhaps the reason why it still...
...works, Ingres returned to a favorite subject, a harem nude. His earlier versions had shown her against a background of bathing slave girls; his final version simplified the scene to what it had actually been, a studio pose. And though rendered in watercolor-a lesser medium than oil-The Bather is, if anything, finer than his youthful version of some 60 years before. It was the final proof of his lifetime maxim: "The simpler the lines and forms are, the more there is of beauty and strength...
...More Slipping. Showers are too small; they should be larger, have a built-in seat, and be enclosed to the ceiling except for the entrance. Different-shaped handles, square for hot and round for cold, would permit the soapy-eyed bather to adjust water temperature without alternately scalding or freezing himself. To avoid slipping while balancing on one leg, a continuous wraparound safety bar is needed. "One can get a car washed automatically in five minutes, while it still takes us 15 minutes to wash ourselves by hand," Kira notes wryly, and predicts that sweeping technological changes...