Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading Pablo Picasso loud and clear. What a good laugh he's having at Chicago's expense [Sept. 23]. For who can look a gift horse in the mouth? "Unmistakably feminine" indeed!! The sculpture is obviously the head of a large male mandrill baboon-and in what better jungle could he make his home...
Siesta & Small Talk. The project all began, Hartmann said, three years ago, when the architects decided that the 85,000-sq.-ft. Civic Plaza called for "an important piece of sculpture." Why not go right to the top, approach Picasso? Armed with models of the building and photographs of Chicago, Hartmann descended upon the artist's villa at Mougins on the French Riviera. Though Picasso had never been to Chicago-or, for that matter, to the U.S.-he delightedly recognized pictures of Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. "Mon ami Hemingway," he exclaimed, then explained that he had taught...
...final sculpture, Hartmann explained, would be placed before the city's Palais de Justice, or courthouse. For a year Picasso ruminated, finally painted the first sketch on plywood. Then, working with twisted cardboard, which his assistant translated into pieces of metal and assembled, Picasso developed two versions, one light and delicate, the other roughhewn. Not until May 1965 did Picasso bring the two together, announce: "This...
Viqor & Vision. Picasso's choice was for the airy figure, untitled but unmistakably feminine. Its graceful symmetry, sweeping lines and enigmatic features suggest more than a passing nod to U.S. tradition, which has usually portrayed Justice as a blindfolded goddess weighing scales, often combined with an eagle in flight...
...game of guessing Picasso's true intention is likely to go on as long as the sculpture stands. So is the equally nagging question, why Chicago? Says Hartmann: "It is a city not unlike Picasso. It is a volatile place. Besides, he began to love it, to think of it as a city of great beauty, vigor and vision." The only one, in fact, with the vigor and vision...