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Word: bellmer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...velvety opulence of his colors, it is the human figure that stands at the center of Wunderlich's art. In his earlier works, it was tortured and twisted, shorn of limbs, reduced to a skeleton, provoking comparisons with Dürer and Cranach, Redon and Bellmer. Death, he seemed to say, is in all life, deformity in all beauty, and behind the erotic daydream is the ever-present nightmare of flesh doomed to decay. Today, his figures appear more whole, more sensuous, more magnetic. Love has banished dreadful death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty in the Bizarre | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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