Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past as gratification, and think it good because it made us possible. But Monet did not labor for the sake of Philip Guston or Sam Francis. His actual greatness resides in the way in which he marked, and then transcended, his own cultural perimeter. He provoked Impressionism rather as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon provoked Cubism; and the crucial encounter here was with an older painter, Eugene-Louis Boudin, whom he met somewhere around...
...Night evoke a world nearly as lyrical as Keats' vision of embalmed darkness and sunburnt mirth, and it was a world palpably created by the Murphys. For nearly a decade, artists of all sorts enjoyed a respite from their messy lives in the company of Gerald and Sara. Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Cole Porter-all were drawn to the couple before the Fitzgeralds arrived in France...
Artistic interpretations have varied as widely. The painters of the Byzantine era produced a formidable otherworldly Christ; in the Middle Ages he became the stern ruler at the Last Judgment. Gradually, a more human Jesus appeared. Rembrandt scoured the Jewish quarter to find models. By the 20th century, Picasso was painting Jesus as a bullfighter...
...escapes. Picasso and Einstein, says Fellini in a published exegesis of the film, are Augustes. Middle-class parents are Pierrots; their children Augustes. Hitler: a white clown. Mussolini: an Auguste. Freud: a white clown. Jung: an Auguste...
...Next to Picasso and that camping St. John of the Cheque, Salvador Dali, Warhol is the supreme example of the artist-as-celebrity. "In the future," he once remarked, "everyone will be famous for at least 15 minutes." Warhol's own 15 minutes has been very long. His fame is self-replicating: like a perpetual-motion machine, it grinds on amid the iridescent cavorting of his superstars and the thump of heavy, if rigged auction prices ($60,000 from a Swiss dealer for a Campbell's soup can recently). It has reached the point where Warhol...