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...would have liked it to have gone on. Years later she called him "the only one in that milieu who really turned me on." But Richardson surmises that Picasso was wary of her. "She was too much of a celebrity," he writes, "and not submissive enough...
...PICASSO WAS VERY SUPERSTITIOUS...
...ancient Greek and Egyptian bowls plays well off the Hokusai print beneath. The objects are well displayed throughout. Many, such as the ubiquitous lead-glazed plates and platters, hang on the walls with the two-dimensional paper works, while others can be found distributed in cases. A plate by Picasso featuring a crude fish with an unsightly abscess of an eye confronts the viewer entering the second gallery. The cases utilize mirrors to good effect. For instance, a circular mirror reveals the black silhouette of an ancient athlete on the bottom of a Greek oil flask while another makes...
...misunderstanding with Martin Puryear a few weeks ago. We were talking about a work of his from the late 1980s and the problem of beauty in art. You might not know that beauty is a problem, but for a long time it has been suspect as a virtue. If Picasso and Braque had worried about beauty, the thinking goes, they would never have ventured into Cubism. And in due time they found their way to--what else?--another kind of beauty...
...Even on a purely commercial level, endless neon Maos or identical riffs on the Ramayana will only saturate the market and, in the end, make artists' works less valuable. So, too, will a reluctance to explore different artistic avenues; imagine if Picasso spent his entire career in his Blue Period. Art critics worry that the current buying boom will only lead to creative stagnation - and that everyone from the artists to national governments are being blinded by money. "What people call avant-garde art in China has actually been co-opted by the government and is now mainstream," says Yang...