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...population had dwindled from 5,000 in the 1880s to 500 in the late 1960s, when political activists and dropouts looking for a Rocky Mountain high started moving in. Native Elvira Wunderlich, 70, remembers the hippies as "just a bunch of trust funders and freeloaders." But the newcomers brought along their political savvy and quickly commandeered the town council from the locals, known as the elks (because of their frequent meetings at the Elks Club). Says former Mayor Jerry Rosenfeld, 44, a Denver dropout from the Eugene McCarthy campaign: "We were going to build a utopia here...
...patent policy also encourages professors to attract aid from industry, taking advantage of a recent tax act that provides incentives for industry to support university research, Tom Wunderlich, director of research administration, said...
...Wunderlich began collaborating with Karin Székessy, a professional photographer of fashions and nudes. Surveying a mass of Karin's nude blowups, he found that there were usually one or two that fascinated him, and he began using them as a point of departure. The dramatic metamorphosis may often be traced from photograph to print to painting in such works as The Red Flower and Interior. A brunette model in an easy chair is likely to wind up as a tangle-haired Medusa, just as thoroughly transformed as the two lovelies waltzing through colored smoke rings...
Death in Life. For all the velvety opulence of his colors, it is the human figure that stands at the center of Wunderlich's art. In his earlier works, it was tortured and twisted, shorn of limbs, reduced to a skeleton, provoking comparisons with Dürer and Cranach, Redon and Bellmer. Death, he seemed to say, is in all life, deformity in all beauty, and behind the erotic daydream is the ever-present nightmare of flesh doomed to decay. Today, his figures appear more whole, more sensuous, more magnetic. Love has banished dreadful death...
...paint the body because it has great possibilities for interpretation," Wunderlich says. That much he shares with the German expressionists. But his dry wit and typically surrealist delight in visual and verbal puns provide ample comic relief. He titled a portrait of a woman with five breasts Very Décolleté. As for interpretations of his paintings, he leaves that to others. "I refuse to try to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself, you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick...