A high-class tart, she is hugely popular in top brothels, lightly disguised as parfumeries or health clubs, until she becomes off-puttingly randy herself.This satire is written with the apparent artlessness that befits a girl who has no political opinions and who weeps when anyone is even slightly civil to her.
The argument over the role of art and artlessness in travelogues and ethnographic films is also pertinent to newsreels, where the standard principles governing journalism must apply.
In Five Primitive Masters (1949), the German critic Wilhelm Uhde in fact acclaimed primitive art's "air of unsophisticated artlessness and clumsiness," which supposedly expressed "an elevated or ecstatic state of mind".
But it takes devotion to get such artlessness right.
A stranger to false modesty and phony self-deprecation, her ego seemed both colossal and, in its artlessness, endearing.
Is Slade really as poor as is often suggested, or has his apparent artlessness evolved in order to mask his significant intelligence, and an unusual ability to turn a profit?
The Mazurkas themselves emerged pristine: he caught the sweet artlessness and abrupt mood-changes to a T.
The story of the ignorant and naive Parzival, who sets out on his adventures without even knowing his own name, employs the classic fairy-tale motif of "the guileless fool" who, through innocence and artlessness, reaches a goal denied to wiser men.
Boulders had been strewn here and there with artful artlessness, and lotus leaves tilted drowsily in the water.
She argues that what was later held up as evidence of depravity was only another aspect of artlessness.
No matter how frank, the autobiographical photo always involves a delicate balance of truth and fiction, artlessness and art.
