Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while his wife and son are enjoying the Maine breezes. Into his enforced celibacy comes the girl upstairs, an uninhibited hoyden from Denver who powerfully blends naiveté with sex-she dunks potato chips in champagne, begs for "more sugar" in her martini, artlessly boasts of posing in the nude, feels that it is all right to do "anything," with Ewell since there is no danger of his wanting to marry her. Ewell is already equipped with a vivid, Mittylike imagination (he daydreams that his wife's girl friend, his secretary and a beautiful nurse all try unsuccessfully...
Business As Usual. In Columbus, Ohio, having summoned the law to arrest a Peeping Tom, Stripteaser Geraldine ("Sequin") Garner proudly presented police with an autographed nude picture of herself, inscribed: "What the Peeping Tom was peeping...
...father, a stern Norman notary named Duchamp, sent him to Paris to study law. The youth took up painting instead, changed his name to conceal the fact. Later, two brothers and a sister joined him on Montmartre. One, a cubist sculptor, called himself Duchamp-Villon. Painters Suzanne and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase} Duchamp braved their father's wrath by using the family name. Marcel was by far the most successful artist of the family, but he was bored by his work. He finally gave up painting for chess...
Matisse early, a revolutionary period, so well represented at recent New York exhibits, is confined in his exhibition to prints such as "Seated Nude" which indicate the extreme freedom of line, but not the uninhabited use of color that won from critics the derisive label "fauve." When he painted "Bathers with a turtle," Matisse was already moving away from completely spontaneous expression toward a more "thoughtful freedom." In "1908" he showed that the passing sensations of moment did not completely define his feelings. From this point on, his goal seemed to be a "condensation" which would maintain his emphasis...
Except for an occasional landscape such as "Montalban," which shows the same decorative and emotive technique applied to nature, Matisse devoted himself mostly to the nude, for, as he explained, "it is through it that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have toward life." The variety of works in this exhibit concerning the nude provide in themselves an excellent insight into the development of Matisse's style...