Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reckoning, Joan Miró is probably the greatest living painter, at least of the generation that produced Picasso, Matisse, Gris and Dali. Amidst these driven men, Miró was always the elf, an antic poet who took Surrealism and made it gay, an irreverent abstractionist who planted sexual symbols in wide fields of indeterminate space. He is already so enshrined in art history that it is easy to assume that he is dead. But Miró is alive, and at 80 has taken off in a new creative direction...
...long subjugation to Pollock's spirit began in 1940. Manhattan's McMillan Gallery was putting on a show of Picasso, Matisse and Braque, and proposed to have three unknown Americans exhibited with them. One was Willem de Kooning, another was Jackson Pollock, the third was Lee Krasner. At the time, Krasner was 32 and totally absorbed in the bohemian life...
Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts, lauded Deknatel for his contributions to the appreciation of modern art. "When Professor Deknatel began teaching modern art at Harvard in the 1930s not many people either knew or cared about the difference between a Picasso or a Matisse," Slive said. "Today things are different. His pioneer work and the scores of students he trained helped bring about the change...
...audience for advanced chemistry. Wyeth's audience, however, runs into the millions. His infrequent exhibitions -the most recent of which is a retrospective organized by Art Historian Wanda M. Corn at the De Young Museum in San Francisco-jam the galleries with visitors; in the U.S. only Picasso can pull more crowds than Wyeth. The price of a Wyeth watercolor begins at about $20,000, and his minutely detailed tempera paintings, of which he manages to finish about two a year, are said to have gone past $100,000 apiece...
...lithographs based on Stonehenge, Henry Moore, 75, was summering at his house in Italy. Back home in England, Mme. Tussaud's Wax Museum was getting ready to unveil a likeness of Moore leaning against a pillar, on the other side of which is a wax figure of Pablo Picasso. Moore had already donated a navy blue suit, shirt, tie and handkerchief for his efRgy and had been photographed and measured by Jean Fraser, the museum's chief sculptor. But after recording the last statistic, she confessed to Moore that she really works 3 by eye. "Oh, that...