Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening day of Pablo Picasso's last exhibition of new works resembled a French state funeral: a crowd whispering and shuffling beneath the lofty medieval arches of the papal chapel in Avignon, orations, bereaved friends; and afternoon light, the color of dusty honey, sifting in benediction through the lancet windows...
...centerpiece of the summer's Avignon Festival, L'Exposition Picasso consists of 201 paintings. They date from September 1970 to June 1972, and may be said to form Picasso's last testament as an artist. The show bears signs of haste. The installation is confused, the catalogue scrappy, and its preface, by Rene Char, is a tangle of the glutinous verbiage that some French poets exude like silkworms when in the Spanish presence. Nevertheless, the exhibition will certainly be a tourist success. These are, after all, the last Picassos. They are also the worst. It seems hardly...
Died. Jacques Lipchitz, 81, one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century; of a heart attack; in Capri. From his native Lithuania, Lipchitz immigrated to France at 18 and became the youngest member in a group of cubist artists that included Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and Georges Braque. Working in stone and bronze, Lipchitz simplified human figures into multiplaned, crystal-like abstractions. During the '20s, he began to reverse the process and "from a crystal build a man, a woman, a child." His ideal became Rodin rather than Picasso, his work more monumental, his themes heroic. During World...
...twentieth century, to be an artist means to assemble available bits and pieces into a new order. The show of collages by Robert Motherwell now at the Museum of Fine Arts demonstrates the progress of the medium under the hands of one its most skillful practitioners since Picasso. Motherwell's collages, like those of the Cubists or of Kurt Schwitters, attempt to bring a new kind of immediate reality back into painting in place of the new excluded reality of representation. At the same time these works mark stages on the artist's way to defining his own role...
...paintings and painted imitations of printed patterns. It is as if the artist, this early in his career, could not yet make a whole painting, and instead combined successful forays on the armature of a Cubist model. Some of the works, in fact, are actually renderings or interpretations of Picasso prints in collage. Verbal and literary significances, which permeate all of Motherwell's career as a painter, can be seen as early as Mallarme's Swan, dating from the late forties, and the same inklike shapes that provide the vocabulary of the magnificent later Elegy series are already present...