Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward Hopper's painting, the nude is sculptured mood-a figure almost unbearably vulnerable to the dawning day, one more way for Hopper to show the emptiness of the crowded city and the aloneness of its people." See ART, Shy About the Nude...
Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his great rival John Trumbull was able to stir up enough scandalized protests almost to ruin poor Vanderlyn forever. When William Page tried to exhibit his 1862 Venus in Boston, there was such an outcry that the painting was whisked from public view. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where on Ladies' Day the Greek statues were draped, the great Thomas Eakins posed...
Humbly, the Congressmen stood around drinking at a soundstage bar, watching a corps of almost nude ballerinas rehearsing as slave dancers-and waiting. Taylor did not show. Eddie Fisher arrived in a green Rolls-Royce and a matching polo shirt and began to mumble apologies. Spouting uncourtly remarks and parliamentary rhetoric, nine lawmakers-including New York's Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and North Carolina's Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee-left the set. The remaining three loyally remained and were finally ushered into Cleopatra...
Breasting the tides of public life, British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, 55, has been known to take his mind off political worries by acquiring an occasional painting. Last week a London gossip columnist delighted in detailing a recent Gaitskell purchase: a nude painting of attractive Lady Coldstream, 26, sometime model and fulltime wife of Fine Arts Professor Sir William Coldstream, 53. The painter, Anthony Man. labored to defend the conservative nature of Gaitskell's buy. "Mind you," said Man, "it's not a nudey nude of the 'Oh, I'm shivering because...
...rest of France was not so enthusiastic. He was rejected as a candidate to do a monument to Novelist Emile Zola. Aix-en-Provence commissioned a monument to his beloved Cézanne, then refused to accept the finished statue, a reclining nude. Even when Maillol found a sympathetic patron, Count Harry Kessler, art adviser to the German Kaiser, it turned out badly. World War I broke out, and the French angrily concluded that Maillol was pro-German, dismissed his beautiful nudes as so many plump Fräulein...