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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World of Fantasy and Analysis | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art 1980: Picasso, modernism's father, comes home to MOMA | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A City of Crowded Images | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 22, 1982 | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of Unfussed Clarity | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

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