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dAVId NEWMAN
As we go through the house, there is not a single room without In the complex group of images of woman as perceived by David,
a feminine presence on the walls. From the early years to the one never senses, as for Picasso, that woman is either unbalanced,
abstract period, woman has been a constant source of inspiration. psychologically disturbed, or shocked at her own baffled persona. The
Although the approach varies, whether he chooses to do portraits, dislocation of features easily leads one to wonder why distortion is so
nudes, compositions with figures, the couple, the mother and child, often the outcome. As a woman, I ask “why, Maestro, did you see such
one characteristic prevails: they are seriously beautiful, composed, ugliness in us?” Of course, the exception is those magnificent sensual
sometimes regal, and always intelligent. curves so harmoniously suggestive of the Marie-Therese period.
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