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...individual technique: when he dabbled in Cubism, as in his Flowers of the World Blooming (1915), he did so like no one else. "Picasso was preoccupied in Cubism with finding forms and artistic language to render an object," maintains Avtonomova. "Filonov's concern was that object's philosophical core." She sees Filonov as an artist-scholar who first defines a key idea, then gears his vision, palette and expression to that idea...
...area on the eastern stretch of the Vasari mural, behind which, he asserts, lies the masterpiece. Having looked at sketches and copies of Anghiari, I strain to tap into an inner X-ray to see through the mural to the Leonardo behind. The original, a Renaissance forebear of Pablo Picasso's Guernica, was described by Italian writer Anton Francesco Doni as a "miraculous" rendering of the ravages of war. The battle depicted was a key victory of the Florentine Republic, which may help explain why Vasari was asked to paint over it by his Medici patrons, who were enemies...
Genius is rare; genius blessed with longevity is miraculous. That Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) made the most of these twin gifts is attested to in his sketchbooks, which cover 73 of his 92 years, a span that transformed our way of seeing. Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso (Atlantic Monthly Press; 347 pages; $65) documents that revolution of vision through the artist's eyes. The book reproduces six sketchbooks and includes selections from 36 others, each illustrating the development of images and styles that dominated the painter's major periods. Scholars should find this work indispensable; art lovers...
...light on his works. Instead, Bunuel provides readers with a kaleidoscope rendition of the bohemian world of the 20th century’s great artistic minds. He freely mixes fact with fiction as he touches upon everything from art to politics. Bunuel mentions how figures like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Charlie Chaplin dressed, drank, and behaved at orgies. The charm of “My Last Sigh” comes from the fiction, as well as the credibility and renown of Bunuel’s friends and foes...
...that I can say is that I don’t like Guernica at all, although I helped [Pablo Picasso] hang the painting,” he writes. “Recently, I discovered that Alberti, and Jose Bergamin share my opinion. All three of us would like to put a bomb under Guernica, but we are too old now for such things...