Nude Young Woman I
Zúñiga, Francisco
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Alternative Titles
Adolescente de Pie
Standing Girl
Date
1972Description
Detail, head from front; In 1959, in works such as Standing Women (bronze; Mexico City, Mus. A. Mod.), he moved from the non-academic naturalism of his early style, which was still linked to the 19th century, to a more realistic idiom, taking as his models the indigenous women of south-eastern Mexico, whom he represented standing or seated, singly, in pairs or in a group. They are women with large bodies, both heavily built and scrawny, all seemingly caught in a violent transition from youth to old age. They inhabit a dramatic silence in which there is no communication, and occasionally they appear with the ancestral dignity of their race, as in Woman from Yalalag (bronze, 1975; Monclova, Bib. Pape). Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/13/2010)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
contemporary (1960 to present), human figure, nude in art, Twentieth century
Rights
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