Word: bathers
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There have been reports of this new breed of lifeguards carrying out several rescues already this summer, with local papers proudly chronicling the hairy heroics. Rambo, an 11-month-old Labrador, helped save a drowning 47-year-old bather near the east-coast city of Foggia, while Massi, a Newfoundland, and Labrador Romeo were patrolling the super-chic Amalfi coast aboard a motorized, rubber coast-guard raft when they helped two would-be victims. Other four-legged studs have offered staged demonstrations of water safety for vacationers near Venice...
...first more or less Surrealist work, a small stone sculpture from 1932 called Composition - which is not in the show at Kew - is one that Moore developed out of sketches of a child nursing at a woman's breast. Compare it to the grotesque exaggerations of Picasso's 1928 Bather (Metamorphosis 1), a work that Moore knew and which Composition appears to draw from, and you can see the road not taken. It's not that the sources for Moore's sculptural forms were always gentle and benign. Anything but. They could often be traced back to his service...
...seemingly endless permutations of his preferred elements—flesh, water, and light. In his most impressive photographs, these three elements harmonize, none taking precedence over the others. In “Nu de la Mer” (1966), water rises tranquilly around the legs and torso of a bather and courses in at her waist, forming a delicate liquid skirt jeweled by streaks of glimmering refractions of the midday sun that fall upon her thighs. In another well balanced print, “Soleil sur Marais” (1962), jittery zigzags of light serve as a topographical...
...once he started painting, destroyed most of his early efforts. One work that survives is a 1933 Crucifixion, which was reproduced that same year in Art Now, a book on contemporary art; on the facing page, tellingly, is a similar work by Picasso, a small-headed Bather (1929) with raised arms...
...Traveling east, the 60-kilometer journey from Dili to Manututo matches any of the world's great coastal drives. The road hugs the limestone cliffs, swooping down to sea level then rising skyward again, where the view of the iridescent blue waters beckons the bather within. Give in to the urge: the water is cool and clean, and the coral a few feet offshore is stunning...