Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualities saved Villon's new work from being classed as "second-period cubism," i.e., art that derives from the early days of Braque and Picasso but dilutes their experiments into decorative and fairly understandable patterns-something for the living room. The first quality was the clear cold space in Villon's landscapes: deserting table-top still lifes, he had found a little of the space and sweep of the out-of-doors. The second quality was in his colors. As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime...
...months later when he saw Hendl, he presented the article and demanded his painting. When he saw it, Munch was quite impressed, and promised to show it to his friend Please. Since their the Hendl's have heard nothing, but they're still hoping for an encouraging word from Picasso...
...support, Munnings turned to Honorary Academician Extraordinary Winston Churchill, who sat with him at the speakers' table. "Not long ago," he recalled, "Mr. Churchill and I were walking together. Mr. Churchill said to me, 'Alfred, if we saw Picasso coming down this street towards us, would you join me in kicking hard a certain part of him?' I said, 'By God, Winston, I would...
...picked Pablo Picasso's monumental oil, The Pipes of Pan, as a contemporary example of the Greek glorification of the body. Picasso's heavy-limbed athletes had the same solidity as sculpture, and for all their blank faces and lumpish hands & feet they seemed to glow with life and health. It was a safe bet that artists a century from now would still be learning from the Greeks...
...Pablo Picasso, 67, leading post-impressionist and a founder of cubism, was seriously dabbling again in realism. For Paris' Communist-sponsored "World Congress of Partisans of Peace," scheduled for later this month, he had painted a dove of peace that looked just like a dove. The bird, trilled Communist L'Humanite, was "vital and soft. Its plumage shines and drives back the shadows...