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...party was given in 1908, in honor of elderly Primitivist Painter Henri Rousseau, by a youthful admirer named Pablo Picasso, who decorated his Montmartre studio with Chinese lanterns and ordered in a "gargantuan supply of wine.'' When the party ended and the sun was rising, Rousseau had long since left his seat of honor (a chair on a crate) and gone home...
...Grant Wood seemed to us like dream fantasy images'"), against the rigid structure of cubism, the cliché-ridden images of surrealism-and against the Government-commissioned mural painting of WPA. Above all they were revolting against the awesome dominance of Paris painting and the long shadow of Pablo Picasso. They were searching for something new, not as a school, but as individuals following nearby paths in the same wood. Some are still searching. "It's not that I'm against anything," says De Kooning, "but I'm more for myself. I don't know...
...travel to New York and back as a floating art show on the S.S. Liberté, then will be auctioned off for charity. Whether the culture-in-the-kitchen movement would catch on, not even the cool heads at General Motors (France)-who supplied the Frigidaires-cared to predict. Pablo Picasso had an opinion on the subject. Asked to contribute to the show, Picasso had refused. He wouldn't want to use anything but white paint on a refrigerator, he said, "so why bother...
...began to find his medium in 1926 with wire sculptures. He created out of wire a whole circus, complete with leaping trapeze artists, jumping kangaroos and horse-hurdling bareback riders. Their mobility, controlled by springs and a master crank, charmed a Paris Left Bank audience that included Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger and Joan Miro. The mobile was being born...
...clearly represents the fact that you can get by with a fraud if it is big enough. Pablo's is a 32-by-29-ft. lulu...