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TitleSeated Bather

Creator namePicasso, Pablo

Creator nationality/cultureSpanish

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1930

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions64 1/4 × 51 in. (163.2 × 129.5 cm)

LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78721

Accession number82.1950

SubjectsFemale nude in artSurrealismPainting, Spanish--20th century

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Chapter I

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All beautiful things, the Greek philosopher Plotinus wrote in the third century A.D., produce “awe and a shock of delight, passionate longing, love and a shudder of rapture...

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PublisherPrinceton University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00285.1

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Chapter subject tags:AestheticsPlatoSchopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860Modernism (Art)Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994

III. The Classic Years: 1951–1970

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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné

~“I paint very large pictures. … The reason I paint them, however,—I think it applies to other painters I know—is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human”—Rothko, 1951 Mark Rothko, statement in “A Symposium on How to Combine...

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David Anfam

PublisherNational Gallery of Art

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00213.004

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Chapter subject tags:Symbolism of colorsColor-field paintingRepetition (Aesthetics)Painting, AbstractPainting, American--20th century

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