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Word: toilworn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exposition of ancient and modern Indonesian art, Affandi's 48 pictures are a curious combination of East and West. He paints anything that catches his eye-huge Western bridges, gritty red-light districts, stolid water buffaloes, dead chickens, his friends, his toilworn mother. And he paints them with obvious emotion: his lines are slapdash, his colors sometimes slop together in incoherence. But more often the result he gets is a soaring, faintly oriental fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Emotion from Java | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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