Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar that it would be a cliche if it were not for the fact that it continues to be a main artery to a dead end for people born poor and-or black in America. "By the time I was 12, I was considered an exceptionally good artist," Hakim says of Bradford. "By the time I was 13, I was a junkie. It's like any other fellow who grows up in the ghetto. You're confronted with images. Images of values you can never aspire to because you're black. As Malcolm taught us, this process teaches...
...Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger, points out. "Painting is stronger than me; it makes me do what it wants," Picasso has said. His experience of self is predicated on that sensation of bearing, in the literal sense, "a gift," for gifts come from outside, and the artist is their medium. Prodigy is analogous to the divine right of kings-always present, a force beyond argument or development. Hence Picasso s most often quoted remark: "I can hardly understand the importance given to the word research in modern painting. In my opinion, to search means nothing in painting...
...Paris, Picasso wrote on a self-portrait "Yo el Rey"-the King. This motif runs through his art and life. To think that Picasso has ever been embarrassed by the homages paid him would be naive. Though prone to fits of self-doubt, he is the most naturally egotistic artist since Benvenuto Cellini, a standing refutation of the cozy untruth that geniuses are rather humble at heart. Significantly, he read Nietzsche when he was young, and there is an exhortation in Zarathustra that could well serve as the epigraph to his career: "You must become a chaos if you would...
...consumptive laundresses, wistful acrobats and delicately shaded cripples who populate Picasso's canvases between 1902 and 1906. On one level, they record his experience of the miserable and dehumanizing poverty that lay around him in Paris and Barcelona; on another, the beggar-as-outcast is equated with the artist-as-outsider...
...Women of Algiers (after Delacroix)-1954; 51. Portrait of Sylvette David-1954; 52. Portrait of J.R. with Roses-1954; 53. Woman by a Window-1956; 54. Aries: The Arena in Front of the Rhone-1960; 55. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-1961; 56. The Artist and His Model-1963; 57. Rembrandt and Saskia-1963; 58. The Sabines-1963; 59. Femme Couchée-1964; 60. Tête d'Homme-1969; 61. Pierrot and Harlequin...