Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...represented by eight works, notably a riotously colored Odalisque with Flowers and a small, masterfully composed Open Window at Etretat. There were also excellent pictures by other artists in whose work Rosenberg has dealt: Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat and Pierre Auguste Renoir, whose appetizing La Source-an amply bosomed nude sitting beside a running fountain-showed the luscious tints and easy symbolism that make Renoir popular even with beginners in art appreciation...
...Park. The organizers of the show, led by Art Critic Sefiora Juana de Mordo, had invited and received entries from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Sweden. But as diplomats and officials gathered in striped pants and top hats for the formal inauguration, they noted a strange sight: all the nude statues had been primly covered with white sheets...
...most startling picture was produced from 30 separate negatives : The Two Paths of Life, showing one youth embarking on a career of virtue, illustrated by chaste and busy maidens on one side of the picture, while another youth started out on a course of licentiousness, dramatized by fetchingly nude ladies and assorted revelers on the other (and considerably larger) side of the work...
Strong stated that in the last five years only one book has been removed from sale by due process of law and that the Watch and Ward Society has taken but one action to exercise censorship--to prevent the sale of pictures of nude men and women on the backs of playing cards...
...Pope Paul Ill's master of ceremonies, Monsignor Biagio da Cesena, objected to the many nude figures in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In revenge, Michelangelo rounded out the picture with a caricature of Biagio as Minos, a character from Hades with ass's ears and a serpent around his midriff. When Biagio protested, the witty Pope replied: "If the painter had sent you to purgatory, I would have done my best to get you out. But I have no influence in hell...