Word: corinthã
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...Kampf’s portrait, the traditional figure of the Kaiser stands erect with a hint of a sneer, clashing with Lovis Corinth??€™s adjacent Salomé, which epitomizes the unconventional. Largely a satirical depiction of femmes fatales, the wanton Salomé leans over John the Baptist’s head with her breasts exposed, her fingers probing at the eyes of the dead. Informed more by the burlesque than the Biblical, Corinth uses the grotesque to satirize a common subject in paintings at the time...
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