Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Munch's most powerful paintings of the redhead was Jeatiousy, in which he depicted her as a salacious wanton, with an enigmatic, glowering father at left. Between the two, man-depicted as Poet Przybyszewski-is held transfixed in agonized suspension. Even more ruthless is Munch's lithograph Nude with Red Hair, showing her as sensuality personified, with screaming orange hair and glaring green eyes...
...squinting at the luxuriant landscape. "Merde," he murmured, "but it's beautiful!" He was Auguste Renoir, already in his late 70s and crippled by rheumatism, but lively in his opinions (shown a Picasso painting, he shouted: "Take that filth away!") and unabashedly glorying in his work. Showing a nude he had just completed, he confessed that his model was the baker's wife, exclaimed: "She had a bottom-oh, forgive me. But it's true. It was so beautiful. The whole town would have liked to dance around...
...typical of the schoolboy in the English novel during the past 100 years-sensitive, mildly precocious, ignored by adults except when he exasperates or embarrasses them. John Blaydon does both frequently, for he is incapable of committing a transgression without being caught. When he goes swimming in the nude with nubile Victoria Blount, she almost drowns, and John is discovered by an entire house party as he sits astride her thighs applying artificial respiration. At school John is similarly arraigned by fate when a homosexual classmate slips into his bed. Instead of being totally pliant or totally repelled, John...
Matisse's The Conservatory came as another pleasant re-encounter. Few paintings, even by Matisse, match the lucid freshness of this canvas. And, as an interesting contrast, Three Bathers combines the Frenchman's characteristic gracious ease with a monumentality as structural as his bronze, Seated Nude...
...spend about $170 million. Many of them will be surprised at the high French prices, which are up 10% over last year. For nightclubbers, the best bargain is Paris' Lido, Europe's splashiest nightclub-$6 for a three-course dinner, a half-bottle of champagne and a nude (from the navel up) chorus line. Every small town is making a bid for some of the tourist cash, and theatrical and musical festivals will ring all over France through mid-September. Among them: the Chamber Music Festival at Prades (July 15-Aug. 1), the International Music Festival...