Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown refuses to talk about his triple academic life. But his feelings are clear about rules that will force him to confine his teaching to one campus. "What if a Picasso wanted to teach at Bronx Community College, New Paltz and State College?" he asks indignantly. "Do you think he would be denied...
Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, Marshall, Hemingway, Faulkner, Picasso, MacArthur, DiMaggio, Joe Louis, all seemed to have been around forever and to have a limitless future. There was no room for small figures in the pantheon. An entire generation retreated into a posture of silence, pursuing their desires down a bland alley. Pop culture-film, comics, records and below all, TV-became the national pacifier...
Among the many big names represented by trivia (Braque, Chagall, Dali, Boccioni, Gauguin, Sutherland), Picasso makes an appearance with two very routine pottery plates decorated with fish; presumably someone thought the old satyr of Vallauris was ruminating on the Christian ichthus...
...Fogg continues to show its Maurice Wertheim Collection of works from the Paris School (Matisse, Cezanne, Rousseau, Picasso, etc.) and its display of Legendary Paintings of Bali. The Bali showing was master-minded by David Irons '67, who acquired the paintings while studying Balinese music...
With Gris and Picasso, Miró is one of the three great modern artists Spain has produced. Both Picasso and Gris immersed themselves in the cosmopolitan culture of Paris. They became European rather than "Spanish" artists. But, as Miró pointed out in a letter to a friend, he remained "an international Catalan." Miró without Catalonia would no longer...