Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maurice Wertheim Collection of 38 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the School of Paris will be on display at the Fogg until the end of the summer. Matisse, Bonnard, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Seurat, Van Gogh and Picasso are among the painters included in the collection. Sculpture by Maillol, Degas and Despiau will also be among the works on exhibit...
...more I work, the more I want to work," he says, recalling Picasso-but without the fear of death. Miró has always been a reclusive figure. The stubby squared-off head above the plain business suit could belong to any Barcelona merchant. What has issued from that head is a different matter: despite many trivial or self-parodying works, Miró is the last of the great stylists of early modern art, the most poetic and formally gifted of all the surrealists. His imagination, filled with juicy ironies and wry eroticism, has enriched generations of younger artists, including Pollock...
...symbolic sense they have been frozen still more by Western art history, which has tended to interest itself in African art only to the extent that it was cannibalized by Picasso, Braque, Brancusi and other European artists, becoming a font of style for cubism and expressionism. This helped Europeans see it as "real" art, instead of mere curios or portable anthropological data. Still, the stereotype must be got rid of before African art can be understood in relation to its original audience...
...movement, is always describing contour, even though the shapes one infers from the contours are rarely closed or fixed. His early pencil portrait drawings from 1940-41, done 15 years after he smuggled himself into America, are manifestly homages to Ingres-or, more precisely, to Ingres as filtered through Picasso. But that sense of exact and probing contour was not dissipated by De Kooning's progressive moves toward abstraction. Instead, it was reinforced. The line in Abstraction, circa 1945, knows exactly where it is going and what it is doing; for all their improvised quality, his arabesques and scribbles...
...Very Curious Girl. Nelly Kaplan's much-praised feminist work about a young French woman who becomes a prostitute. Picasso called it "Insolence raised to the level...