Word: locis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hyeres. If ever a littoral was changed from a place to an idea by the efforts of painters, this one was it. Paul Cezanne, a Provencal rooted in the limestone and red clay of his native Aix, had made backcountry Provence around Mont Ste.-Victoire one of the sacred loci of the modernist imagination. Among them, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard would do the same for the coast...
...attributes as an artist, including his sometimes overweening vulgarity, were cast in a large mold. He became a symbol, the key figure in cultural transactions between North and Central America in the first half of the 20th century. He played his role for Mexico, part ambassador and part genius loci, to the hilt. His energy had a titanic quality: he covered many acres of wall in Mexico and the U.S. with his murals and left behind a huge output of easel paintings, drawings and prints. Few 20th century artists have been as popular in their own societies. None is more...