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...which the big sculpture raised in the '80s in the Parc de l'Escorxador in Barcelona is probably the best. But this takes nothing away from the brilliance, even the genius, of his earlier work -- especially in the '20s and '30s, when he was in Paris and making the finest paintings associated with the Surrealist movement. Miro always used to be referred to as ''the great Spanish artist,'' which is technically true but culturally wrong. He was a Catalan artist, and the difference -- as anyone who knows Catalans will know -- mattered greatly to him. Catalunya, that triangle in the northeast...
Since I consider Robert Hughes to be one of this country's finest art critics, I always read his articles with great interest. However, I was surprised that in his sensitive review of ''Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550'' (ART, May 26), he spoke eloquently of Sculptor Veit Stoss but not so much as mentioned the master's contemporary, Tilman Riemenschneider. It is true that the latter hailed not from Nuremberg but from nearby Wurzburg, yet all the qualities Hughes admires in Stoss's work can be found in Riemenschneider's extraordinary wood carvings. Riemenschneider was Stoss...
...Metropolis is acknowledged as one of the most important and influential works in the history of film. Its - for its era - avant-garde special effects and visual flourishes not only inspired some of the finest science fiction films of the 20th century, such as Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey; the unique aesthetics of the film left its mark on numerous fields of popular culture, from comic books such as Superman to music videos by Madonna...
...Kwok On Collection - sometimes called the Pimpaneau Collection - is considered the world's finest trove of Asian theatrical and sacred masks, costumes and related pieces. Originally devoted to Chinese opera (it features, for example, the definitive catalog of memorabilia from the career of Mei Lanfang, the great Beijing Opera master who died in 1961 at the age of 67), the Kwok On Collection numbered thousands of pieces by the time it was housed in a small dedicated museum in Paris in the 1980s. By then, it had fallen into the hands of Jacques Pimpaneau, a French sinologist who added similar...
...long as directors find symbiotic inspiration in minds as fertile as Winston's. (At his death he was working on Cameron's Avatar.) His finest achievements in his last decade, as he tried battling cancer to a draw, were the robot Teddy in A.I.-another melancholy mandroid in the Scissorhands style-and, just this year, the suit that Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark fashions in Iron Man. Stark's basement laboratory might have been Winston's workshop; the dedication and ingenuity Stark lavished on his jet-propelled armor were worthy of Stan the Man himself...