Word: java
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show last week, Affandi was still a little fidgety about all the attention he was getting. He had never been out of Java until three years ago, and in the next few months, he will travel to Paris. Rome, Stockholm and the U.S. with his paintings. When he gets home, he wants to start an art school for native painters, but first he wants to look around a bit and see what the Western world has been doing in art. "If I'd never left Java," he says, "I would never have seen where I stand as a painter...
...Netherlands' Piet Ouborg, who spent 20 years in Java, apparently returned with a head full of tropical dazzle. His haphazard Driving Away is the sort of painting that drives people away from abstractionism...
Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...
...most part, Boston took in the show silently and thoughtfully, occasionally clucking at the stiff prices (up to $7,500 for Sculptor Robert Laurent's bronze Lot's Wife). As usual, the crowd seemed to like the realism best, voted Java Leopard, a startling, almost photographic jungle scene, their favorite in the show. One advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed...
Aside from keeping and breeding the usual small animals--hamsters, rats, mice--this Animal Farm has successfully bred monkeys. It now possesses a baby Java and a baby rhesus. Both varieties of monkeys are used in a study of the endocrine factors in tooth decay...