Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that way for long. The geometry had a way of resembling a hard-edged landscape or interior. By the mid '40s, shredded bits of the human figure began to appear. The square and the rectangle had become a prison: "I wanted to introduce the curve, so using the nude model I began the study of curved movements...
...Paume Museum, French Minister for Culture André Malraux whisked her past the collection of impressionist paintings in a breakneck 45 minutes. "I have just seen the most beautiful paintings in the world," gasped Jackie as she returned to the rain-splashed street. (Her favorite: Olympia, a reclining nude by Manet...
...highlight in the evening for story-starved pressmen was the appearance of a nude visitor during the intermission of the Glee Club-RCS concert in Mem Hall. Dripping wet, the man wandered in muttering "everybody's dreaming, I'm not really here." Some 'Cliffes thought it was colorful...
...crucified man whose body had been pierced again and again by long knives and large nails hung last week on canvas in Beverly Hills' Frank Perls Gallery. Near him, in another painting, a green nude was trussed up and suspended like a sheep being carted off to slaughter. Equally ghoulish was the subject matter of most of the pictures in the exhibition-but undeniable power showed in their uninhibited color and eerie distortions...
...called Yo-Yo turns out to be quite sinister: the Lolita-like girl with the Yo-Yo flaunts her body seductively while an old man with chalk-white face and sunburned bare legs leers and chortles. In The Bath, an orange-colored woman sits by a potbellied male whose nude body has the color of death and whose face is covered with purple squiggles suggesting decay. Even Strombotne's self-portrait-an elongated figure with beard and dark glasses-seems tortured. The wrists are crossed as if waiting to be manacled; the stance is stiff and tense. "This," says...