Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years after the photograph was taken, Duncan received what may well be the modern art world's ultimate honor. On his 46th birthday, Duncan was summoned to Picasso's studio. There on the artist's easel was a drawing of Duncan, right elbow raised high as he shoots a bird staring straight into the lens of his camera. "Photographers always used to say, 'Look at the birdie,' " laughed Picasso. "O.K. There's the bird, and there you are too. Happy birthday...
...Legend. Such bombast is familiar because Picasso has not been a subject of serious controversy for at least 35 years. The man has become a monument, rising from a reflecting pool of undiluted praise. For Picasso is not merely the most famous artist alive. He is the most famous artist that ever lived; more people have heard of him than ever heard the names, let alone saw the work, of Michelangelo, Rembrandt or Cezanne while they were alive. His audience is incalculable. By now, it must run into hundreds of millions-including, admittedly, the many people who have heard...
...PABLO PICASSO is nearly as old as the electric light bulb. He was nearing his quarter-century by the time the Wright brothers lumbered into the air at Kitty Hawk. He was well known by the start of World War I and a celebrity when it ended. Since then, his reputation has increased exponentially, to the point where the shape of 20th century art is unimaginable without him. This week Picasso turned 90, and his birthday summoned a procession of tribute bearers. The Louvre has turned over its Grande Galerie to a selection of Picasso's work, the first...
...feel that no hand has ever possessed a greater gift of wonder, of revealing in one single, decisive stroke the mystery of life in all its profundity," writes a critic named José Bergamin in one of the new books, Picasso at 90. "The most perfect, absolute, authentic Picasso, the Picasso par excellence, it seems to me, is the latest...
...What he is validates what he does: he has so long been saddled (not unwillingly) with the task of being the vitality-image or phallus of the West that every sketch, painting or dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with...