Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the most famed cubist painting in the world is Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which now hangs in the Hollywood home of Walter Conrad Arensberg. Last week Los An-geles newshawks discovered the artist on the same premises. France's Duchamp, 49, was making his first visit to California to see once again the picture that established his reputation...
...piece of imaginative creation," explained the morose, poker-faced painter pointing to his master work. "If people see a nude in it I don't object. Anyway I long ago quit painting and took up chess. 1 was becoming a professional painter, and professionalism is always the death of Art. The old masters were professionals, which means that they were one-man factories. Art isn't made in factories. ... I find California a white spot in a gloomy world...
...modern French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were cubist abstractions painted in a monotone, but quick-witted Marcel Du-champ gave them intriguing names: The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes; Chess Players; Sad Young Man on a Train; Nude Descending a Staircase...
...home for anyone, no matter how young, to read, if he can! That baseball is played on Sundays, and that the front cover would be better given to the Royal Family (not economic Royalists) or something similar. After the lovely photo of Jean Harlow some months ago and the nude in the Art Department (of all places) a few weeks ago, and now this of Di Maggio, I feel I must tell you that at the end of my subscription in June 1938 I will renew for only one year, instead...
...merchandise. Against his father's advice, Lawrence Saint apprenticed himself to a stained glass artist, scrimped and saved to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this time a deep religious experience led him to join the Presbyterian Church, worry about the propriety of painting nude females. Ribald fellow students tied him up, carried him by force to a model's stand where an undraped woman was posing. High-minded Lawrence Saint abashed his tormentors by keeping his eyes closed, walked out with dignity when released, loftily remarking: "Principle, gentlemen, in art as in other things...