Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them up, the two slabs could be fitted together almost as good as new. Even some of the brown paint on the slave's face and arms is still in place...
...Riviera, where he was lounging about in soiled white shorts, with his barrel chest a magnificent brown, Picasso left off playing with his son long enough to deny that he was being domesticated. Grumbled Papa Picasso: "My painting hasn't changed, my subjects haven't changed. If I happen to paint a little girl it is because she happens to be at hand. If a piece of wood were at hand I would paint...
...section you often mention the nudes that artists paint, or draw . . . "His sunny, splashy little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes" [TIME, June...
They can draw them or paint them, and show them in the galleries, but if you photograph one in the gallery and print the picture in your magazine, TIME will be banned as indecent, lewd and pornographic. Rather silly...
...trouble recognizing each other" chertled one sign precariously carried by two 1939 men who looked as if they wouldn't know their own fathers if they happened to walk into them. Other groups, apparently less confident of their memories, covered themselves with mustaches, hats, cloaks and grease paint so they wouldn't have to say hello in anybody in particular...