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That reaction was better than some others. Leo Stein, Picasso's wealthy American patron, called the painting a "horrible mess." Henri Matisse, with whom Picasso maintained an edgy rivalry, doubled up in laughter when he saw the work in Picasso's studio. Andre Derain, a painter who was becoming friendly with Picasso, warned an acquaintance: "This can only end in suicide. One day, Picasso will be found hanging behind the Demoiselles...
...Demoiselles d'Avignon is a masterful combination of narrative and art criticism. He traces Picasso's inspiration back to an 1863 essay by Charles Baudelaire in which the French poet declared, somewhat arbitrarily, that carriages in the Bois de Boulogne and brothels were the two acceptable subjects for the "painter of modern life." The five female figures nakedly displaying themselves in Les Demoiselles are fairly obviously in a brothel, but Picasso, characteristically, was not content simply to do something that others had done before him. ("You've got to make what doesn't exist," he once said; "what has never...
Howard Rheingold, author, gardener and painter of his own shoes (moons, planets, stars, etc.), may be the wellhead of this social spirit. Certainly his site, Electric Minds www.minds.com) which opened last week, is the quintessence of online community. "The idea is that we will lead the transformation of the Web into a social Web," Rheingold says. Electric Minds is one-stop shopping for netniks who just like to commune--especially about the impact of technology on life. A "virtual community center" provides pointers to every online klatsch in cyberspace, from The Club for First Wives to alt.shoes.lesbians...
Varnedoe's show does an immense service to Johns by trying to see him whole, as a painter with a continuous 40-year oeuvre, rather than as a hinge figure between movements--Abstract Expressionism and Pop, Minimalism and process art, or whatever. Johns has been thrust rather too easily into this role by his great influence on other artists. The deadpan stripes of his Flag, 1954-55, become the pinstripes of Frank Stella's black paintings in 1959, and his deliberateness, making the picture up in advance instead of discovering it in the act of painting, lies behind much process...
...appropriate. In some shots, Leigh prefers to give the actors full attention, ignoring all else (which perhaps led to the scene between Cynthia and Hortense in a restaurant that is completely devoid of waitstaff and customers). But in others, Leigh has composed the screen with the care of a painter: here, Maurice sits brooding in a bar such that we expect to see a glass of absinthe; there, a ringing phone becomes a demon in the dark as Cynthia nervously approaches...