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[/floatr]Yomiuri: Baby powder gives Foujita's works creamy look
Leonard Foujita, an acclaimed early 20th-century artist known for his unique creamy white pictures of naked women and other works, used baby powder in some of his paintings during World War II, according to an art museum. Foujita, whose real name is Tsuguharu Fujita (1886-1968 ), used a Japanese-made baby powder named Shikkaroru as a painting material...Renowned photographer Ken Domon took a series of photos of Foujita at work. When the museum's curator, Hiroyuki Uchiro, examined the photos, he noticed a can of Shikkaroru beside a canvas. Uchiro said Foujita could have used the baby powder by sprinkling it on a half-dry canvas surface and then rubbing it in, or by mixing the powder into pigments...more...
I'd half had an idea to write about Foujita, partly because of his marriages overseas, but you can more profitably read his Wiki entry. Here he is with third wife Lucie Badoul, known as "Youki":
I'll pop an image of one of his paintings below the break, in case it's deemed NSFW by some draconian company IT policy.
