Word: avignon
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Hence whole pyramids and stupas of doctoral paper have been raised over its site. No short period in the lives of two artists -- about seven years from Picasso's completion of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907 to Braque's enlistment in the French army in 1914 -- has been more analyzed by more hands. Rather than try to boil down all this material for the general public (a hopeless task), Rubin has taken a biographical approach, focusing entirely on the give-and-take between the two men, their bonds and differences, their mutual way of working through what he rightly...
...south and the village of La Roche-Guyon outside Paris, Braque dug himself into and then out of Cezanne. Nor does it have the clumsy but crucial Large Nude of 1908, in which he struggled to make sense of the shock of first seeing Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. There is, however, the marvelous 1909 Harbor in Normandy -- a seascape of vectors, in which hulls, spars, water and sky are made of the same brown-and-blue prismatic substance, buckling in shallow space...
...India -- resonates with such ritual images, haunting metaphors, aphoristic dialogue and spiritual searching. The event, viewable in a marathon day or in three installments, is The Mahabharata, the most ambitious production yet by Peter Brook, 62, the visionary elder statesman among stage auteur directors. A French version originated in Avignon in 1985, then played to sold-out houses in Paris in 1986. The English-language premiere transfers this week from the Los Angeles Festival, where it played in a cavernous studio, to a twelve-week run in a more intimate theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music...
...year after the bubonic plague, or black death, had begun its devastating rampage through Europe. In a famous medical treatise French Surgeon Guy de Chauliac of Avignon recalled his impressions of the horror around him: "The father did not visit the son nor the son the father. Charity was dead and hope abandoned . . . For self-preservation there was nothing better than to flee the region before becoming infected...
...then began staging bacchanalia for his "niece" and his courtiers, Kelly says judiciously, "The charges brought by contemporaries against his sexual life cannot be explained away, but he was personally devout, a protector of the poor and needy who showed charity and courage when the Black Death appeared at Avignon in 1348-49, and defended the Jews when they were blamed for it." So he did know something about how to be Pope after...