Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, most people are extremely shy about any nude, but no doubt you have contributed your praiseworthy share to the abolishment of the body taboo, which forbids so many people to consider the human body as being natural, pure and therefore beautiful...
Everybody Loves Opal (by John Patrick) is a try at sick comedy that merely manages to be unwell. A bizarre trio of crooks consisting of a satanic professor with one lung (Donald Harron), a roly-poly jester (Stubby Kaye), and a bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) who looks nude in clothes, decide to insure a zanily beatific spinster junk collector named Opal Kronkie (Eileen Heckart) for $30,000, and then murder her for the insurance. The would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered...
...anatomy, he took courses at the Jefferson Medical College, for a time even considered becoming a doctor. Instead, he went off to Paris to study under the French master Jean Léon Géróme. The basis of Geroóme's teaching was the nude, as it was to be of Eakins' own teaching later...
...With the 20th century, the nude came into its own, only to disintegrate in the last 15 years under the probing abstractionist brushes of Willem de Kooning and others like him. The exhibition has a rare nude by Maurice Prendergast, a delicate bit of impressionism by Mary Cassatt, an angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though...
...Pene du Bois took the opposite approach. "We've got to be men first of all," he said. "The artist can come later." In Edward Hopper's painting, the nude is sculptured mood - a figure almost unbear ably vulnerable to the dawning day. one more way for Hopper to show the emptiness of the crowded city and the aloneness of its people...