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This work brings together two of Hockney's themes from his paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the swimming pool, and the double portrait. It depicts a male figure in white trunks swimming underwater, and the painter Peter Schlesinger , Hockney's former lover and muse, fully clothed and standing at the edge of the pool looking down at ...
Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907) depicting boys swimming from a pier in the East River, New York City "Swimming baths" and pools were built in the late 19th century in poorer neighborhoods of northern industrial cities of the US to exert some control over a public swimming culture that offended Victorian sensibilities by including not only nakedness, but roughhousing and swearing.
In a less formal setting, young boys might be nude in mixed company, as shown in a home movie of an outing featuring young Brownies, Girl Guides and Scouts playing in the grounds of a stately home in 1940s Britain. While the girls and older boys wore suits, the boys of about 10 years of age played in the river naked. [34]
People born in the 1970s. See also: Category:1970s deaths. 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; ... Jay Anderson (American football, born 1970s) Trish Andrew; Trevor ...
1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s Pages in category "1970 births" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 16,743 total. This list ...
Perry Edwin Ellis (March 3, 1940 – May 30, 1986) was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Ellis' influence on the fashion industry has been called "a huge turning point" [1] because he introduced new patterns and proportions to a market which was dominated by more traditional men's clothing.
Fish's boutique gained a reputation for offering flamboyant, attention-getting clothing. Notable celebrities of the 1960s and 1970s such as Peter Sellers, Lord Snowdon and David Bowie [5] wore Fish's designs. By the middle 1970s, the Mr. Fish shop had closed, and Fish took a job with Sulka in New York, a label famous for its silk foulard ...
Catherine Yass (born 1963), bright colour, images often a combination of the positive and negative, subjects ranging from toilets to empty cinemas and Bollywood stars Madame Yevonde (1893–1975), pioneered colour in portrait photography, including a series of guests at a party dressed as Roman and Greek gods and goddesses