Word: eycks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White traces the development of the nude as the ideal form in art. He draws on classic forms from Clark's Nude: Study: the Greek model of Perfect Man as god, beautiful body and well-trained athlete; the change Christianity marked as the ideal became fallen man, like Van Eyck's Adam or Eve with protruding bellies; the Renaissance resurrection of love for the human form; and then a need for the spiritualization of man as he rejects all former images of himself...
...EXHIBIT are examples of the artist-photographer who pictures the "nude" as an ideal form of art: Barbara Morgan's photo "Pregnant" (a pregnant woman's torso), if it had been placed next to a reproduction of Van Eyck's Eve from the Ghent Altarpiece, certainly would emphasize the classic form. So would John Brook's "Moon in Leo" if placed next to a similarly entwined Rodin couple. Next to Christine Enos' "Richard" (a man flanked by two statues of Greek goddesses) should have been placed sculpture representations of the Greek god-athlete-man. Goodwin Harding's "emulation...