Word: picasso
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...exhibition that will bring hundreds of thousands of people to a place with no hot restaurant and no cabs. At a time when the museum blockbuster is threatened by high insurance rates and topic fatigue--there are Monet haystacks I see more often than I see my mother--"Matisse Picasso," which comes to the U.S. after hugely successful runs at the Tate Modern in London and the Grand Palais in Paris, is proof that the blockbuster can still be a public service, not to mention a supreme pleasure. It's only February, but it's safe to say that this...
From the first, critical and popular thinking positioned the two artists as the heads of opposing camps. The critic Andre Salmon summed it up in 1910. "There are lovers of art capable of admiring both Picasso and Matisse," he wrote. "These are happy folks whom we must pity." We all know the terms of their face-off. Matisse the color-infatuated voluptuary, Picasso the spiky engineer of Cubist space. Matisse the consoler, Picasso the bomb thrower. Matisse the man who once called for "an art of balance, of purity and serenity," Picasso the one who said, "In my case...
...fashionable ennui, Mountstuart makes for good company. A pleasure-seeker, he travels ceaselessly, eats and drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical panoramas--the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War--and has some cheeky fun with celebrity cameos: Picasso appears as a manic Left Bank chatterbox, Virginia Woolf as a venomous cocktail-party boor, and in what amounts to literary incest, Mountstuart indulges in a brief snog with Waugh himself...
...modern age. Though ostensibly located in London, visually Mattotti has moved the action to Weimar Berlin. Filled with grotesque faces and crippled veterans, Mattotti evokes the world depicted by such "degenerate" German artists as George Grosz and Otto Dix. Other scenes take on the fractured look of Braque and Picasso's cubist work. His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form. Using an ochre-colored brush for the outlines and masterful shading with colored pencils Mattotti has created one the most richly, almost garishly, colored comix I have ever seen...
...Munch Museet Just a fraction of its 23,000-piece collection of Edvard Munch works is on show at any one time. Also on until Jan. 19: works by Picasso, Braque, Léger and Gris on loan from Stockholm's Moderna Museet. Tøyengata...