Word: picassos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After academic studies in Havana, he went to Europe in 1923; presently he came to know Picasso (whose work strongly influenced him) and the Surrealists, who took him in as a member of their group. Another black painter who knew him in Paris claimed that Lam "forged the link between African sensibility and European tradition," and he wasn't exaggerating much. But in 1941, correctly surmising that a black Surrealist who had fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War would have a short future under the Nazi occupation of France, Lam returned to Cuba; from there...
...fashion faithful -- a tribute to the stir that de la Renta and Balmain are causing. On hand are a healthy number of designers and well-known customers: Valentino, Claude Pompidou, some major Agnellis and Rothschilds and a generous sprinkling of American celebrities, among them Marisa Berenson, Paloma Picasso, Mica Ertegun and Barbara Walters...
...original. It is pure stasis. Koons is the baby to Andy Warhol's Rosemary. There is no artist in whom self-advertisement and self-esteem are more ecstatically united than Koons: he makes even Julian Schnabel, who recently proclaimed himself to be the nearest thing America has to Picasso, look like a paragon of self-effacement. He has done for narcissism what Michael Milken did for the junk bond...
...Crimson did win last night in Briggs Cage, 70-60. It beat a scrappy Northeastern squad, but this game was certainly no Picasso...
Entitled The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, 1929-1936, the exhibition includes works by Picasso, Matisse and Lachaise--artists whose talents were first introduced to Boston by the society. Dreifus also incorporates brochures printed by the society, newspaper articles about their exhibitions and correspondence between members of the society and their influential patrons. Dreifus' texts are intriguing and descriptive, giving visitors a glimpse into a more idealistic world...