Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strongest tastes were negative," writes Waugh of Pinfold. "He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz-everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. There was a phrase in the thirties: It is later than you think,' which was designed to cause un easiness. It was never later than Mr. Pin fold thought...
...artist whose specialty also was still life, Nicholson grew up in a visually literate milieu. Because it was English, it was conservative. Ben's first real contact with modern art did not occur until the 1920s, when he saw a Picasso in Paris. "It was what seemed to me then completely abstract," he recalled later, "and in the center there was an absolutely miraculous green-very deep, very potent and very real...
...would look classy on the stuffiest of record shelves--I keep mine next to my Concert for Bangladesh, the bright orange sets off the rich navy nicely. The producers have thoughtfully included a slick album of color photos from the concert. The back cover contains a tasteful reproduction of Picasso's Three Musicians...
...luxury" substitutes. The demand for them is a reult of the art boom of the '60s and '70s, when prices rose with dizzying speed and millions of Americans were indoctrinated in the belief that art meant status and investment as well as refinement. So everyone wanted a Picasso; demand for "blue chip" artists was always ahead of supply...
...these people, Rockwell was a kitsch factory, turning out relentlessly sentimental icons of mid-cult virtue?family, kids, dogs and chickens, apple pie, Main Street and the flag?in the corniest of retardataire styles. But to most of them, Rockwell was a master: sane (unlike Van Gogh), comprehensible (unlike Picasso), modest (unlike Dali), and perfectly attuned to what they wanted in a picture...