Word: guernica
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...French waiters "working like acrobats" at a dinner Ravelstein throws for Chick at an exclusive Paris restaurant. Here is Chick on Ravelstein's notoriously messy eating habits: "An experienced hostess would have spread newspapers under his chair." Here is Ravelstein amused, laughing "like Picasso's wounded horse in Guernica, rearing back." Such indelible impressions are the stuff of art, not gossip...
...with Picasso," says Wooster Scott, whose work appears on jigsaw puzzles, Christmas cards and calendars. "I still can't believe I beat him." (Pablo's heirs can take comfort: he still holds the worldwide title.) Though her idealized portraits of rural New England may never receive the acclaim of Guernica, they are irresistible to greeting-card companies and the aesthetes who work in the lottery business: 11 states have featured her work on their lottery tickets...
...country's anguish and dismemberment to issue from Spain (or anywhere else) since Goya's Desastres and Disparates. And every inch of it, from the sinister greenish clouds and electric-blue sky to the gnarled bone and putrescent flesh of the monster, is exquisitely painted. This, not Picasso's Guernica, is modern art's strongest testimony on the Spanish Civil War and on war in general. Not even the failures of Dali's later work can blur that fact...
...salt, white barbells of salt and epoxy resin, flags, flyweight sketches and various film stills) are loosely about the murderer Gary Gilmore, who was executed by firing squad in Utah in 1977. But to say that they are simply about Gilmore is a little like saying Picasso's Guernica is a picture about a horse...
There seems little doubt that the greatest of Picasso's work came in the 30 years between Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937). But of course he didn't decline into triviality. Consistently through the war years and the '50s, and even now and then in the '60s and '70s, he would produce paintings and prints of considerable power. Sometimes they would be folded into series of variations on the old masters and 19th century painters he needed to measure himself against, such as Velazquez and Goya, or Poussin, Delacroix, Manet and Courbet. In his last years particularly...