Word: avignon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montparnasse, the radicals of the new generation were discussing Africa's primitive sculpture and the great Cézanne memorial exhibition. It was the year Matisse exhibited his epochal Joie de Vivre and the year Picasso showed Braque his newly completed Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that launched Cubism...
...shorter than the originals. The sculpture's modeling is calligraphic rather than realistic, and they take on new power to modern eyes conditioned to depreciate the technical skills of representation in favor of the purer visions of stylization. Samson grappling with the lion, an llth century capital from Avignon's Notre Dame des Doms, contains within its stylized forms both the violence of the struggle and the authority of an abstraction. Its companion piece, representing Samson pulling down the temple on his head as six Philistine heads loom above, demonstrates Auden's observation that the old masters...
...little-known but major Mirós from private collectors. Rubin now feels that Miró's 1925 The Birth of the World-is in many ways as significant a painting as Picasso's first major cubist painting, the 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon. A subtly seething, 8-ft.-high panorama, The Birth of the World, says Rubin, is "in retrospect the point of departure in modern painting," making Miró "the major European progenitor of abstract expressionism." As is often true with Miró paintings, the title offers a clue. It is named...
...years. And Picasso himself was so touched that he announced "a little sur prise" gift from his private collection: a Rose Period oil called La Famille, two big, brand-new Picassos done in his contemporary style, and a watercolor study for his first cubist work, Les Demoiselles a"Avignon, a painting which shocked some of his fellow artists but which changed the course of art history when he painted...
...tracing the statue's forebears back to a 1962 metal cutout titled Head of a Woman, currently on exhibition at London's Tate Gallery. But as far back as 1907, when Picasso was inspired by African masks, he painted a figure in the famed Demoiselles d'Avignon bearing an uncanny resemblance to the new sculpture. Chicago's Picasso is also a realization of an old dream. In 1929, commenting on some gigantic monuments he had conceived for the Mediterranean shore, Picasso said: "I have to paint them because no one is ready to commission one from...