Czapska-michalik magdalena artur grottger biography
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Helen williams model biography
There were other models before her, but none crossed over into the mainstream.
In s America Helen Williams became the first black female mode model to do just that.
Born in East Riverton, New Jersey in , she was obsessed with clothes from an early age, and began sewing her own garments at the age of seven.
As a teenager she studied dance, drama and art before getting a job as a stylist at a New York photography studio.
While there she was spotted on separate occasions by Lena Horne and Sammy Davis Jr, who happened to be in the studio doing press shots.
Struck by her beauty, they urged her to take up fashion modelling.
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With her trademark bouffant wig, sculpted eyebrows and long, giraffe-like neck, Williams worked exclusively for African American magazines such as Ebony and Jet.
These early years were tough, as not only did beauty’s apartheid system exclude all non-white models from mainstream fashion.
But within the African America
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Phryne (painting)
painting by Artur Grottger
Phryne (Polish: Fryne) is an oil on canvas painting by Artur Grottger, now in the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland.
Description
[edit]The painting portrays the ancient Greek courtesan Phryne, who according to legend revealed her breasts before her judges to save herself from a death sentence for sacrilege. It depicts a naked woman standing in the middle of the painting and a bush in the background. Her left hand is raised in order to cover her face. Her right hand holds a red robe lying at her feet. It was painted during the artist's stay in Paris a few months before his death.
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[edit]- Bieżuńska-Małowist, Iza (). Kobiety antyku. Talenty, ambicje, namiętności. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. ISBN&#;.
- Bołoz Antoniewicz, Jan (). Grottger. Lwów: E. Wende i Spółka Warszawa, nakład księgarni H. Altenberga Lwów.
- Czapska-Michalik, Magdalena (). Artur Grottger