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A Taste of Honey (1961)

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Iconic.

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The Tree of Life, England, 17th Century

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Bronzino, Laura Battiferri (detail)

1550-55

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Niki de Saint Phalle and Larry Rivers Clarice Rivers 1964

In the 1960s, the Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle had a close relationship with the painter Larry Rivers and his wife Clarice. Her pregnancy inspired Saint Phalle to create her first Nana sculpture, a bulging, voluptuous female body, from papier-mâché and wire netting.

At the time the word “nana” was French slang for a broad or chick, and as the artist’s friend Barbara Rose would write, “the metaphor was obvious but timely: women were perceived as brainless sex objects, child-bearing machines.”

The nanas would become Saint Phalle’s trademark, expanding into public sculpture and reappearing in her drawings and illustrations. Picture above is Clarice Rivers (1964), a collage Saint Phalle made with Larry Rivers, who drew Clarice’s face.

Tomorrow we premiere a new musical film based on Saint Phalle’s drawings.

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full offense but i need intimacy soon or i’ll collapse maybe

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Erin Wasson

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BHSJkEqhrnc/