Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pablo Picasso has always been articulately hostile to Franco's Spain. Only four months ago, he brusquely refused a request from the Spanish Government to acquire his celebrated Guernica, which depicts the sufferings of civilians in the Spanish Civil War. "Guernica will return to Spain only when the republic is restored," he declared from France, where he has lived for nearly 70 of his 88 years. And he himself probably will not go back before Guernica. Thus, the French were somewhat aggrieved last week when it was announced that Picasso had donated some 900 of his early works...
Homesickness. They should not have been. For Picasso, Barcelona is not Franco's Spain-it is the place where he grew up. His family moved there when his father, an art teacher and curator, took a position at the School of Fine Arts. Picasso was then a precocious 13, and it was there, over the next few years, that he set up his first studio, received his first exhibition and won his first prize-an honorable mention for the painting Science and Charity, for which his father posed as a doctor. To this day, friends say, when Picasso suffers...
Instilled by our education with a reverence for content before form, we tend to confront even the most visual, affective arts with an analytic mentality. For months after Picasso's enigmatic fifty-foot sculpture was uncovered in a downtown Chicago plaza, discussion centered frantically on whether it was a woman, a dog, or a bird. Newspapers covered the controversy greedily and people who finally felt they had identified it were at last able to react. When Dylan Thomas spoke at MIT in 1953, his lyrically eccentric speech was met with silence by an audience of what must have been tightlipped...
...reconcile the two, he applies Barth's lesson-"Whatever we say about God, it is men who say it"-to dialectical materialism. The humanism in both Christianity and Marxism, Garaudy believes, provides a meeting ground. He is the author of 22 books on subjects as diverse as Picasso and the Sino-Soviet dispute...
...area of gaping white in the middle. The eye must leap among the different rhythms in the room-from the fragility of Giacometti figure to the heavy rounded bronze body by Maillol. Among the modern things, a few seem as rare as the ancient discoveries. One tiny, unusual Picasso, done before his Cubist work, shows women crossing a square. He suggests the forms of the figures bending forward against the wind by smudges of charcoal. If they turned around, you would see women like those in Greece dressed only in black...