Word: picassian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that.) So folk art includes the minutely stitched embroideries over which the dutiful daughters of urban merchants strained their young eyes, no less than such humble ornaments as the chalkware statuettes cast from plaster by itinerant peddlers-of which a brightly spotted goat with striped horns and a Picassian leer (see color page) is one amusing example...
...trace the motifs-the women and children, the reclining lovers, the toreadors and satyrs-and observe in what relationship they stand to the rest of Picasso's long dialogue with such themes. Unfortunately, none of this makes the paintings themselves any better. Under the pressure of haste, the Picassian style became a parody and at last a forgery of itself...