Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subjects and landscapes dominate the student art exhibit which opened yesterday on the main floor of Fogg Museum. The hanging consists of selected works offered by winners of the House, Union and Graduate exhibits last fall...
According to Arthur Pope '01, professor of Fine Arts and Director of the Fogg Museum, the work represents "the most interesting" of the winners' entries, and is "not necessarily the best" of the work offered...
...Magnon Innocence. Five blocks away, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put on a reassuring show of Picasso lithographs, which proved that 65-year-old Picasso can still draw...
Some of the lithographs-printed in series from the same stone-showed Picasso's method of starting realistically, then distilling and distorting his subjects into something horrendous (or sometimes absurdly simple). The first print of Picasso's Bull, at the Museum, looked solid and sensible enough to illustrate a children's picture book. The sixth stage of the same lithograph was an airy arrangement of less than a dozen thin lines which looked as innocent as a Cro-Magnon cave painting -but less knowing. Another series of nine lithographs, entitled Two Figures, began as a rather sweet...
They were the work of a man ten years dead, but still roundly reviled and praised. Some art critics have ranked Gaston Lachaise with such recent greats as Rodin and Maillol, and just before Lachaise died, Manhattan's high-powered, streamlined Museum of Modern Art honored him with the sort of retrospective show it reserves for its own short list of probable immortals...