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...Legend. Such bombast is familiar because Picasso has not been a subject of serious controversy for at least 35 years. The man has become a monument, rising from a reflecting pool of undiluted praise. For Picasso is not merely the most famous artist alive. He is the most famous artist that ever lived; more people have heard of him than ever heard the names, let alone saw the work, of Michelangelo, Rembrandt or Cezanne while they were alive. His audience is incalculable. By now, it must run into hundreds of millions-including, admittedly, the many people who have heard...
Lost Passion. Life is not like this, and neither is Picasso's. The elaborate fiesta that the mayor and citizens of Vallauris have prepared for his birthday will go largely unrecognized by Picasso, predicted his dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 87, who has known the artist since 1907. "I'm sure that he will disappear for his birthday this year as usual. Perhaps he won't even leave his house. But he will cut the telephone; he will start saying that he is traveling somewhere. He always does." Picasso still dresses with a dandyism beyond the wildest dreams...
Picasso is not only the most famous artist in history, he is also the richest. "Currency is worth less in Picasso's hands than a sheet of blank paper," remarked the English artist and critic Michael Ayrton, "and this condition promotes the problems with which the legendary Midas had to contend." Picasso can get anything by drawing for it. Shortly after World War II, he acquired one of his Midi villas, now relinquished, by exchanging it for a set of lithographs. His own collection of Picassos, several hundred oils (not counting his sculpture, much of which he has kept...
There is little doubt about the direction of the swing today. Forty years ago, Picasso was a presence that every living artist had to cope with. His Promethean spirit was written into the idea of modernism itself. Not now. The only men of Picasso's generation whose work still exerts pressure on modern painting are Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). To artists nurtured on Duchampian irony, the very idea of the culture-hero, which Picasso embodies, is suspect. The last 15 years have seen a reaction against the cult of expressive personality...
...Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso was born at Malaga, under the sign of Scorpio, on Oct. 25, 1881. His mother claimed that the first word he uttered was "piz"-baby talk for lapiz or pencil. "When I was twelve," the artist boasted later, "I could draw like Raphael." He could not, of course. But when he was 15, he had already exhausted the limits of academic teaching, as is amply shown in The Altar Boy, 1896 (No. 1 in TIME's survey...