Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indians must have loved the gods: they made so many of them. Shanta Durga is a ten-handed goddess revered by the 400,000 Hindus in the former Portuguese enclave of Goa. Bhaväni is a ten-handed goddess considered to be the source of all power in the neighboring Indian state of Maharashtra. Last week Bhaväni and Shanta Durgá tried to join hands. Carried by Hindu nationalists, images of the two goddesses were paraded through the streets of scores of Goan villages, together with posters proclaiming: "After 450 years, Bhaväni wills...
Georgio was a neo-surrealist. He and Andy had barhopped in Paris and New York with Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and other experimental creative minds still living. "Tanta" Honey-Lou bought the wild paintings of Georgio and miscellaneous cohorts--she was their patron goddess. Her top-floor studio which led onto the terrace and pool, was hung with eleven portraits done by thankful young admiring artists she had helped. Not flattering ones only. In one she was a pale-green mermaid, with an ochre heart, but still with her own silky orange hair. At 45, her bikinied figure was a source...
...result, Manet's professional life often reads like an endless scandal. The all-too-earthy goddess Olympia, which he painted in 1863, rocked an art world accustomed to nymphs and satyrs, emperors and gladiators: it was obvious from the bouquet of flowers carried by her Negro maid that a lover had just arrived. And when Manet combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered...
...series on The Elements, which ransacked classical mythology to celebrate the events in Louis XIV's reign. One of the most famous, L'Air, drew from the full range of the factory's 79 colors to depict, in wool, gold and silk threads, Juno, the goddess of marriage, rebuffing Boreas, the god of the north wind in Greek mythology. Courtiers understood that the real subject was Louis' marriage to Marie-Therese of Spain, which had brought to an end France's 25-year war with that country...
Viqor & Vision. Picasso's choice was for the airy figure, untitled but unmistakably feminine. Its graceful symmetry, sweeping lines and enigmatic features suggest more than a passing nod to U.S. tradition, which has usually portrayed Justice as a blindfolded goddess weighing scales, often combined with an eagle in flight...