Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brice's latest work. The paintings are mostly of a male and female nude placed in a landscape setting. The nudes are animal as well as human-they squat, crouch, clutch at each other, embrace-and their color has as much to do with earth as with flesh. The animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms seem to merge, and in the best of the works the merger is striking...
...earlier semiabstractions, the rocks and trees seemed to be in part made of flesh and blood. In his present figure paintings, the "integration of the human form and the nature form" is sought more directly. The figures are a part of the landscape; they emerge from it like plants, or they seem to melt into the atmosphere. The forms become entwined and forever locked together in a symbolic embrace...
...material improvement, a harmony, a particular expression of love, the enchanting complexity of a smile or a look, all the new beauties that appear for the first time, in me or around me . . . I cherish them like children and cannot believe that they will die entirely in the flesh...
Picasso's tiny Nude Seated on a Rock -curves of pink flesh set against a sapphire sky-gleams like a piece of jewelry. There are lonely street scenes by the Russian-born American, Eugene Berman, a moving little Fisherwoman by Berman's equally romantic brother Leonid. In the fiery Matta canvases colors explode and splash, while the unearthly landscapes by the late Ives Tanguy. who was one of Soby's closest friends, are strewn with strange shapes, which led Tanguy to call one painting The Furniture of Time. The collection has a dung-colored landscape by Jean...
...Given the convention, the authors who kept the Jew-villain in circulation created their man with a good deal of spontaneity. The Jew-villain might not be a realistic figure; but within the canons of comedy and melodrama he could give the illusory appearance of being a creature of flesh and blood. The purveyors of the immaculate Jew, on the other hand, produced not so much a character as a formula. Riah and his type will not bleed if you prick them...