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...Lempicka and her husband fled to Paris to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917. She studied painting under the Cubist Andr? Lhote and hoped to earn a living from her work, but she did more than merely get by. Her career took off as she managed to secure celeb sitters; her own beauty and dress sense helped her gain entry into the best circles, but she also worked long hours. Her style fused the severe with the alluring: her young women may have geometrically simplified arms, perfect cones for breasts and hair that seems sculpted from sheets of steel...
...Selliers, due out this month. While affinities are not readily apparent between the 19th century master draftsman Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the feisty 20th century rebel Pablo Picasso, the two artists had much in common. Picasso was a lifelong admirer of Ingres, and he had a post-Cubist "Ingres period" (1915-1925) when he returned to figurative painting. He also recognized in Ingres a fellow revolutionary, albeit a more subtle one. Comparing more than 110 paintings and drawings, Picasso Ingres at the Musée National Picasso (March 17-June 21) brings together such works as Ingres' Portrait...
...length feathered coats, many of which are indelibly etched on the minds of fashion mavens. Downstairs, in what was once the couture salon, an exhibit entitled "Dialogue with Art" highlighted some of Saint Laurent's iconic silhouettes: the Mondrian dresses, the Picasso homage of intricately beaded capes splashed with Cubist images, the Pop Art dresses indebted to Andy Warhol. In his heyday Saint Laurent was inspired by artists as much as by the women he dressed. These days it's unusual to see anything totally original in fashion, because so many designers look to the past - to the work...
...York City's Whitney Museum, covers the artist's various phases - figurative neo-expressionism combined with abstract; solemnity combined with whimsy and even leering humor. The most successful of the "plate paintings" on view is a striking 1993 portrait of Olatz, which has the mercurial effect of a Cubist-style mosaic. Opposite hang blood-red abstracts painted on tarps or sailcloth, white Rothko-like spears slashing across blackened surfaces, and delicate, geisha-like figures trailing off into tendrils of action painting. The wall-sized Large Girl with No Eyes, painted in 2001 in a pseudo-Pop Art style, shows...
...that he was never comfortable within the confines of any of the European "isms." He arrived in Paris for the first time in 1910, when the avant-garde was still working under the spell of Cubism. Chagall took from it only what he could use, mostly the possibilities that Cubist fracturing offered as a way to lightly structure the space in which his figures moved. As for the more dedicated Cubists around him in the Paris art world, he wrote, "Let them eat their fill of their square pears on their triangular tables...