But he returned again and again to the posed naked figure, male and female – the ultimate test and validation, so the critic Robert Hughes has stated, of any artist's merit and painterly ability.
The bill was of "huge symbolic importance," said Peter Tatchell, the gay rights campaigner: "This bill is a validation of love between people of the same sex, denying us the right to get married is an insult to those many lesbian and gay couples in long term relationships who simply want the same rights as everyone else".
However, the Coen brothers evidently didn't need validation from the US Academy to connect with UK audiences, and the film opened with a decent £758,000 from 206 cinemas, yielding a strong £3,679 average.
Enabling and encouraging customers to check in, share and seek the opinions of others online can pay off; it gives people the social proof and validation they need to make a purchase as well as building valuable advocacy for the brand.
Surreal as this phase undoubtedly was, Marr remembers it as "quite pleasing", a nice validation of his battered self-image.
Physical work near Paddington station was completed on time but safety validation work that should have taken two hours took 10 hours, the report said.
The agreement is a validation of Nokia's plans to license its patents, which it will retain after completing the sale of its handset division to Microsoft within the next couple of months.
It's a safe place where people can receive support and validation, through advice, photos, music, and merely discovering that they're not alone.
The researchers said their findings required validation by others but pointed out that an expanding waistline had been linked to other cancers, including those of the pancreas, lining of the womb, and ovaries, possibly because midriff fat was more harmful.
Maybe the validation from Oxford Dictionaries has given you the courage to finally try one out for yourself.
Dr Makani says that the work "provides validation that it is possible to conduct genomic research in Africa".
