Word: picassos
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...place to an idea by the efforts of painters, this one was it. Paul Cezanne, a Provencal rooted in the limestone and red clay of his native Aix, had made backcountry Provence around Mont Ste.-Victoire one of the sacred loci of the modernist imagination. Among them, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard would do the same for the coast...
Falkman has written essays comparing Japanese and Western values, various philosophical books on creativity and the mind, and an in-depth study of Picasso's psychology. He has also recently finished the production of the documentary "Japan Dream, Japan Reality," which aired on Swedish television...
...fluency; and there is nothing like it in American art today. Sargent was certainly no modernist, but the fiercely competitive atelier system of figure drawing that formed his style when he studied with Carolus-Duran in Paris also underpinned the high standards of early modernist draftsmanship in Matisse, Picasso or Beckmann. Hence, though his relation to the avant-garde was nil, he is no longer to be dismissed as a flashy bore. There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious sight of an artist's guts on parade...
...from which the ground, highway and signs are recomposed seem to flicker in and out of focus, compelling attention by breaking the illusions one expects in photography. Such works are so much more ambitious, intricate and convincing than the general run of Hockney's recent paintings -- banal pastiches of Picasso, mostly -- that one's pleasure in looking at them is tinged with relief...
...going down into a cramped, cold and dangerous darkness to hew at rock -- was transcended in Moore's work as a man: still cutting stone, but in the light, and in the soothing precinct of his mother's remembered body. What anxiety was to Giacometti or sexual rage to Picasso, nurture and shelter were to Moore. His commitment to sculpture as an act of hollowing, modeling and smoothing the "body" of a single mass ran counter to the pattern of 20th century sculpture, which was to construct from disparate parts a shape that did not need to be felt with...