Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year there were more than 850 items at the annual exhibition of Manhattan's Society of Independent Artists in which anyone may exhibit anything by paying $6 for wall space. Youth, often nude, was the keynote. Expression varied from abstractions in wood and rubber to the blushful romanticism of Victorian candy-box painting...
Virginio DeMartin in his Mono, Lisa in Paradise Dress had stripped Leonardo's inscrutable model down to a garish French postcard, not nude but naked...
...program note for the show there is the following comment on this eminent sculptor: "An artist of enormous technical knowledge he has experimented, refined, synthesized, and perfected until his forms are the inevitable essentials of his model, expressed in media whose possibilities he has so completely explored." "Standing Nude" by Aristide Maillol is another piece of sculpture that will appear in the exhibition...
...photography was a medium of art which could be as sensitive, as interpretative as painting, etching or engraving. Out of the confused mass of forms in the visible world he selected serene or startling shapes and contours, the tense grace of sewing fingers, the slopes and rotundities of the nude. These he rendered with the infinite photographic spectrum, ranging from dead white to midnight blackness through numberless greys, catching both gleams and shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression of a short-skirted girl-a picture of a leg superimposed upon the dim image...
...chance transported to "Easter Orange," N. J. There a wealthy, ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal, but the whole gamut of her staccato experience, pertly recorded...