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Dickering with his bottles, violins, fruit dishes, newspapers, pipes, siphons and fruit, Gris-so the conventional account runs-wanted to construct an ideal world, a nirvana of the inanimate, whose planes and contours fitted together in their complex reversals and transparencies like a perfectly thought-out puzzle: metaspace, as it...
Picasso never painted an abstract picture in his life. His instinct for the real world was so strong that he probably would have produced something woman-shaped every time he took brush in hand. Nevertheless, some of his cubist still lifes of 1911 run close to total abstraction. Objects were...
Even in its more refined moments, seicento art in Naples was geared to a love of strong sensation and imminent catastrophe: crowds and Vesuvius in the background, diseases of the body, instabilities of the soul, Thanatos and Eros beating the big bass drum. One recognizes in the Magdalens and Madonnas...
DIED. Ben Nicholson, 87, British painter whose abstracted images of still lifes and landscapes formed the main link between English art and the continental cubist-constructivist tradition; in London. Born into an artistic and moneyed family, he began as a realistic painter before developing an abstract geometric style.
The typical still life of earlier centuries-the 17th century Dutch table, say, cascading with "parrot tulips and gold beakers, fur, fruit, fish, feather and dew-drops-was a symbol of appropriation. It declared the owner's 5 power to seize and keep the real stuff of the world...