Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -Picasso...
...painted the Eiffel Tower over and over again. He made a series of compositions based on brightly banded circles, one of which-The First Disc, 1912-is almost certainly the first abstract picture painted in France by a Frenchman. Born in 1885, a few years after Braque and Picasso, he tended to be conventionally pigeonholed by art historians as one of their more gifted epigones. And yet, as one can plainly see from the 140-odd paintings, drawings, prints and reliefs that make up the exhilarating Delaunay retrospective organized by French Art Historian Michel Hoog at the Orangerie in Paris...
Archaeology of Newness. To understand Delaunay's modernity one has to realize how old-fashioned the subject matter of cubism was. Picasso or Braque's still lifes, with their tilted cafe tables, guitars, fruit and playing cards, were scarcely different as subjects from those of Caravaggio or Chardin. Despite a few contemporary intrusions (newspaper headlines, printed tickets, linoleum), the subjects of cubism were classical, traditional. They ignored the technology, whose scale, speed, ingenuity and arrogant newness so captivated poets like Guillaume Apollinaire, Filippo Marinetti and Blaise Cendrars, or painters like Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia -and Delaunay...
...suppose that the "advanced" movements in Spanish art during the past 40 years must have threatened Franco's commissars. But a historical show entitled "Spain, Artistic Avant-Garde and Social Reality 1936-76," suggests that it was otherwise, that after the moment of heroic protest symbolized by Picasso's Guernica, the regime itself started to exploit, for its own benefit, the success of the Spanish avantgarde...
...second, and The Angel of Earth (1937), a monster prancing in devouring rage across a flat landscape, had more than a fortuitous connection with the advance of fascism. In Europe After the Rain (1940-42), Ernst produced a vision of spongy, iridescent ruins that deserves a place with Picasso's Guernica as one of the supreme documents of historical evil...