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...died in 1918 at the age of 30, and ending with Rufino Tamayo, who is still alive at 91. Tamayo's paintings, like The Merry Drinker, 1946, are based as much on Mexican popular art with its bright organic colors as on the inspiration of Picasso; broad humor and even a fierce grotesqueness are never far away. And the main body of his work lies within the scale of easel painting, whereas Rivera's does not. Murals, by their nature, cannot be moved around, and so Rivera's coverage in the show hardly does justice to his enormous talent...
...Henry Stimson's life and active service. Gorbachev by Gail Sheehy -- From playpen to perestroika. What a guy! Ronald Reagan: An American Life -- Now he remembers! In All His Glory: William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith -- The prime time of TV's most glamorous tycoon. A Life of Picasso by John Richardson -- Volume I, 1881 to 1906, by the artist's scholarly friend. Blown Away by A.E. Hotchner -- Drugs, death and the Rolling Stones. A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes -- A distinguished writer's autobiography about his early life as an orphan...
...exhibition's key paintings is a little-known Picasso, Studies, from 1920. It looks like a detail from the wall of his studio on which a number of postcards of his own works have been arranged, in all their diversity of style: cubist still lifes reproduced in miniature, but also a woman's head and two hands done in the rotund "classical" manner he adopted after 1919. The emblems of fragmentation (both cubist and antique) share the same pictorial space, essentially that of a collage, with those of an equally intense longing for stability and wholeness. It is a singularly...
...pernicious illusions about modernism lies in treating it as a continuous struggle against the past, as though every real artist were his own Oedipus. In fact, the house of inspiration is much larger than avant-gardist rhetoric has ever allowed. The great transformers of art history, like Picasso or Matisse, were also its great conservators. The idea that one tradition was killed stone-dead in 1907, when Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and that another was born from the act, is nonsense. Perhaps there is no such thing as a deep or genuinely important art based solely on innovation...
...first-rate show in London assesses the classical revival that followed World War I, in which artists from Picasso to Matisse to De Chirico used tradition to temper innovation...