Word: picassos
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...broader trends in women's wear is long and clinging cotton and knit sweaters that give the outlines but not the details. The winner in my knit-picking contest is Adrenne Vittadini's line of sweaters that includes liberal quotations from modern artists like Klee, Miro, and Picasso; if you can't great art, at least you can wear...
Works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Degas, Durer, Da Vinci, Holbem , Redon, Cellini, Seural, and Picasso are also included in the show...
There is one school of thought, inhabited mainly by bald men, which claims that bald is beautiful. Bald men are alleged to be volcanoes of libidinous energy. Think of Yul Brynner, think of Kojak, think of Picasso goatishly chasing girls at 90. But despite such supposed proclivities, bald men are also said to look wise (think of Henry James or Oswald Spengler) and statesmanlike (John Glenn?). All well and good, but prejudices persist. Given a choice, Frank Sinatra decided on hair transplants, and Burt Reynolds acquired a toupee. When are we likely to elect our next bald President...
...with such arch utterances. F. Scott Fitzgerald plants a definition in his notebook: "Debut--the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public." Choreographer Martha Graham admits, "I am a thief --and I am not ashamed. I steal from the best wherever it happens to me --Plato--Picasso--Bertram Ross--the members of my company never show me anything--except (to) expect me to steal...
...Great Painters (Putnam; $15.95), Italian Artist Piero Ventura ranges through history from the pottery of ancient Greece to the murals of Picasso. Along the way he stops to consider almost every major artist; he shows how Dürer worked in woodcuts, the techniques of Holbein (seen painting the clothes of a straw model because the King is too busy to pose), the hidden Christian imagery of Goya, the palette of the impressionists, the contained violence of the fauves and cubists. Ventura augments photographs of the paintings with his own sketches of the artists at work, explains such terms...