Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin with, Gertrude Stein liked Picasso, Matisse, the Cubists, and wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas...
...Fleurus where Gertrude and her brother Leo lived, but at 58 rue Madame where their older brother Michael lived with his wife Sarah. MOMA has succeeded in opening the Stein houses, yet we only get glimpses of Gertrude-we overhear only fragments of her remarks about Picasso, Cubism, Picasso, Picasso-we see Leo exclaiming, "Cezanne... Picasso's Blue Period... Matisse!" And Michael and Sarah are lost somewhere in their house that Le Corbusier built at Garches. We feel more like we're at a cocktail party, filling in what our hosts and hostesses are saying, than at a Saturday evening...
...world's No. 1 collector of Picassos is Pablo Picasso. He is especially possessive about his construction sculpture; no museum owned a single example of his work in this art form until last week, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art announced that Picasso has given it one of the great breakthrough pieces in the history of sculpture-his sheet-metal and wire Guitar. Until he made Guitar in 1911 or 1912, sculpture had been mainly a matter of modeling or carving materials. Picasso was the first to begin assembling them, and this has been a prime sculptural...
...reiterated, especially in the French group, La Groupe de la Recherche Visuele, that includes such pioneers as La Parc and Agam. From Gabo and Pevsner's use of spatial structure comes spatial drawing as manifested in Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles, Anthony Caro's I Beams or even Picasso's wire sculptures...
...cities and towns, walls have long been plastered with posters depicting fierce guerrillas wielding blazing Kalashnikov submachine guns. Now Al-Fatah, largest of the fedayeen organizations, is trying to create a less belligerent image. The newest Fatah wall poster shows a rose growing out of a gun barrel, a Picasso-style peace dove and the English inscription FOR LOVE,PEACE AND FREEDOM...