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Hitler took an interest in his work and requested he paint his portrait. Spare refused, saying “If you are superman, let me be for ever animal." When Spare's home-studio was bombed in 1941, he called it "Hitler's revenge."
In post revolutionary France, a fashion emerged amongst the aristocratic women who survived the terror. They cut their hair short to resemble victims of the guillotine whose hair was cut before being beheaded. The style was called ‘coiffure a la victime’ https://t.co/UMYPCbpmWn
Between 1905-13, Walter Sickert (1860-1942) painted a series of female nudes, set in then slum of Camden, London.
His work challenged the idealistion of the nude in the art world by situating figures in squalid lodging houses & cramped rooms.
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Images by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), an English-American photographer who pioneered photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
‘Danaë’ by Rembrandt (1636). In Greek mythology, Danaë is the mother of Perseus. Zeus impregnated her in the form of a golden rain.
Although the artist's wife Saskia was the original model for Danaë, Rembrandt later changed the figure's face to that of his mistress Geertje Dircx
Lois de’ Fee (1918-2012) was the 6’4” “Queen of the Amazon” in the 1938 New York World’s Fair Amazon Exhibit. She was a top-grossing headliner of burlesque throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s, making $400 a week. She married 5 times & adopted her daughter Star in 1941.