Word: matania
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Fortunino Matania, 70, thinks every picture should have a woman in it. In his London studio last week he pointed scornfully to the picture on his easel, a group of staid 18th Century English gentlemen in periwigs and ruffles. "Imagine!" said Artist Matania. "They ask me, me of all people, to paint a picture without women. Such sacrilege! Such a crazy world we live...
...whole generation of Britons would agree with Matania that the picture, commissioned by a Scottish firm "for a calendar or something," was a shocking waste of talent. Matania's place in 20th Century British art may not be high, but it is reasonably secure: nobody in his day drew pretty, scantily draped girls more to the British fancy...