Word: cocteau
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...kilts, jackets embroidered in the Yugoslav manner. I assure you, he wears them with majesty." But all desire to be public, to act in front of the camera, is gone. The group of friends and colleagues has dwindled, for Picasso has outlived them. Matisse, Braque, Gris, Léger, Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gide, Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Eluard, Breton, Sabartès, Gertrude Stein-almost all the friends and legendary figures who made the "heroic" years of the French avant-garde and constituted the tribunal against which Picasso could measure himself-are dead. "When I see you," he recently told one friend...
...Cubism now seems, it won no immediate public recognition for its creator. That came only in 1917, when Impresario Serge Diaghilev commissioned Picasso to design a new ballet, Parade, with music by Erik Satie. Picasso went to Italy with the ophidian prodigy of the salons, Poet Jean Cocteau, to work on the sets and costumes. The motifs he encountered there inspired a series of stout, monumentalized "neoclassical" compositions (33-35). From then on, Picasso had a repertory for his Arcadia: the vine-wreathed gods and nymphs, the Minotaurs and classic busts, the disjecta membra of antiquity that...
...surplus on the roof. There, Johansen entertains in a boneyard of leafy wrought-iron love seats, rusty trellises, cast-lead nymphs and salvaged Art Nouveau birdbaths. In those startling surroundings he looks for all the world like a Viking who has strayed onto the set of an unfinished Cocteau movie...
...congestion, blood clotting and surgery reduced his body to "a ruin," according to his doctor. Yet until the end, which was attributed to arteriosclerotic heart disease, every one of his maladies seemed somewhat curable, save for his hypochondria. The remarkable features that had been caricatured by such friends as Cocteau and Picasso -bull-fiddle nose, guitar-like ears, pince-nez, natty mustache-remained mobile and alert. Stravinsky carried on with the conversational crowds he loved so well, often speaking to one guest in French, another in English, or in Russian to his wife Vera, a former costume designer for Diaghilev...
...Mademoiselle Chanel has reigned over fashion," mused Jean Cocteau some time ago, "it is not because she cut women's hair, married silk and wool, put pearls on sweaters, avoided poetic labels on her perfumes, lowered the waistline or raised the waistline and obliged women to follow her directives; it is because-outside of this gracious and robust dictatorship-there is nothin» in her era that she has missed...