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...homunculi who scurry like moles through his landscapes or rear up, delicately rainbow-tinted like decaying fungi, in paintings such as Extravagant Lady, 1954 (opposite), are mere coalescences in human form. They are not people but slices of life, and in this perversely microscopic sense Dubuffet is a realist painter. The flat "absurdity" of his gaze on the fallen objects of this world has led to the idea that Dubuffet is not interested in beauty. That is untrue. He claims for his art "another and vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised...
...that everybody knows something about. Stories about it begin in his early childhood. It is said that his father, a provincial art teacher in La Coruna, Spain, turned over his own brushes and paints to this alarming offspring, confessing that little Pablo had already surpassed him as a painter and that he thus could work no longer. This Oedipal story (the child castrating the father) crops up often in the legends of genius, but it is possibly true of Picasso; he was almost as remarkable a child prodigy as Mozart. The precocity continued, through his studentship in fin de siecle...
...DOUBTFUL whether any other painter in history produced so much in such a long lifetime as Pablo Picasso. Titian lived to be 99, but only an artist of such diverse styles, such daring experimentation, such natural feeling for his media as Picasso could show such rich variety and consistent excellence in an oeuvre spanning almost 80 years. Always, this production was at the forefront of art in the twentieth century. Picasso was the last, and possibly the greatest of the modernist giants...
...Dwight C. Barnaby's first chapter from a forthcoming novel (Durftenfaust) is too short to demonstrate more than a snatch of potential, but Alice Van Buren's "Twelve O'clock" (another first chapter) does more. It begins the memoirs of a self-pitying, broken-down, and impotent young Bohemian painter who's retreated so far from the world that he has absolutely no one to talk to-an unlikeable schlemihl, except for his occasional self-denigrating humor. The problem Van Buren gives him is a variation on a dusty science fiction device-he finds he can stop time at will...
...cabin and conducts random searches, the daughter finds herself tracking ancestors more distant than her father. She comes upon what appear to be copies of rock paintings among her father's papers, then decides these atavistic scrawls are original visions, uniting her father with the first cave painter, his archetypal self...