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A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed "exhibition guide" that replaces the usual wall panels.
The dazzling beaches are covered with fine sand that ranges from bright white to pastel pink.
Visitors to the "Monet in the 20 th Century" exhibition in Boston are in for a surprise, especially if they arrive in one of the museum's pastel shuttle buses decked with water lilies as if it had been dredged from a swamp.
I was immediately struck by the benign, pastel tonality of the clothed population; there seemed to be a large consensual flight from the color black, that famous hue of communal refusal.
As a pastel practitioner myself, but furtively sharing many of Hawkins' prejudices and hunches about computational modelling in neuroscience, I am caught between commendation and consternation.