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  2. Glidden (paints) - Wikipedia

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    Glidden famously employed the chemist Percy Julian in the 1930s, who was one of the first African-Americans to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry. In 1967, Glidden merged with SCM Corporation and became the Glidden-Durkee Division of that company. In less than 10 years, the division became responsible for two thirds of SCM's sales.

  3. Vagina and vulva in art - Wikipedia

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    The vagina represents a powerful symbol as the yoni in Hindu thought. Pictured is a stone yoni found in Cát Tiên sanctuary, Lam Dong, Vietnam.. Various perceptions of the vagina have existed throughout history, including the belief that it is the center of sexual desire, a metaphor for life via birth, inferior to the penis, visually unappealing, inherently unpleasant to smell, or otherwise ...

  4. Body fluids in art - Wikipedia

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    The outcry about the Piss Christ photo is an example. [ 16 ] In addition to the obvious difficulties of preserving perishable material, there can be regulations complicating transport by rail, truck, or aircraft of liquid body fluids due to the fluids' possible classification as dangerous goods.

  5. List of body modifications - Wikipedia

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    Nullification – the voluntary removal of body parts. Body parts that are commonly removed by those practicing body nullification include the penis, testicles, clitoris, labia and nipples. Sometimes people who desire a nullification may be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, body integrity identity disorder or apotemnophilia. [9]

  6. Category:Paintings of women - Wikipedia

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    The Bar (painting) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; The Bathers (Renoir) Bathers with a Turtle; The Bathers (Cézanne) Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door; The Beauty; Beijing 2008 (painting) The Beloved (Rossetti) Berlin Street Scene; Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait; Bharat Mata (painting) The Black Brunswicker; Black Woman with Child

  7. Depictions of nudity - Wikipedia

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    Nudity in artpainting, sculpture, and more recently photography—has generally reflected social standards of the time in aesthetics and modesty/morality. At all times in human history, the human body has been one of the principal subjects for artists. It has been represented in paintings and statues since prehistory.

  8. Germain Glidden - Wikipedia

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    Glidden was born in Binghamton, New York, raised in Englewood, New Jersey and attended both Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University.After graduating, he studied at Art Students League of New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and when World War II erupted, he joined U.S. Navy as a naval officer, stationed in Hawaii.

  9. History of the nude in art - Wikipedia

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    Classical art [Note 2] is the art developed in ancient Greece and Rome, whose scientific, material and aesthetic advances contributed to the history of art a style based on nature and the human being, where harmony and balance, the rationality of forms and volumes, and a sense of imitation ("mimesis") of nature prevailed, laying the foundations ...