Word: modernisme
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Despite the tradition-steeped training, it was impossible for many of Asia's artists to ignore the tremendous social changes taking place outside their classrooms. Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain, for example, marries myths with modernism in his oil canvases, one of which sold for $2 million in 2005. Fame...
The elegant, extensive retrospective Edward Steichen Lives in Photography, which opened this week at Paris' Jeu de Paume, begins with a giant 5 m by 4 m shot of Manhattan's George Washington bridge. Feel free to make your own analogies. After all, Steichen (1879-1973) bridged the transition from...
I’ve read The Crimson for some time now, but cannot recall reading an article as arrogant, opaque, and simply wrongheaded as Adaner Usmani’s “Against Leadership” (oped, Oct. 4). Cloaked in prolix academic phraseology, his main point, as best as...
In Milos Forman's film (which he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carriere, the great French screenwriter, perhaps most famous for his collaborations with Luis Bunuel) Goya's escapist politics is another sign of his modernism. The great artists of the 20th Century sympathized with "progressive" causes, but rarely played...
And what does that have to do with the eponymous Francisco de Goya (Stellan Skarsgard), that greatest of Spanish painters and precursor of modernism? Very little, as it turns out. He painted Ines, and her wealthy father was one of his patrons. But in Goya's Ghosts he is pretty...