Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Londoner who excites his fellow townsmen is Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Born by the Hudson, he has done most of his controversial carving beside the Thames (TIME, June 1, 1925). Sculptor Epstein's recent London exhibition of drawings also included many an explicit nude. Englishmen came, saw, said various things, but there was no official interference...
...Nude Gooseberry...
...Germany too, Nudism was in the news. It was announced that at the Nudist retreat near Darmstadt an art exhibition would be held. All the exhibits were to be studies of the nude, and all visitors to the exhibition were expected to be as nude...
Potter Poor justifies his exacting process by showing that it necessitates brisk, simple design−''the subordination of technique"−and produces "depth and brilliance of color." The resulting ornaments−leaves, flowers, nude figures, abstract patterns−are so sketchy that the temptation is to call them naive. They are the simplification of form to only the essential contours, graceful and spontaneous. They are not precise and intricate geometry...
...other examples of sculpture include a fine "Portrait head of a woman" and a statuette of "Diana" by Despiau, and a "Standing Nude" by Maillol. The archaistic traits are obvious...