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...Arshile Gorky who got right to the point. "If Picasso drips," he said, "I drip." That was in the late 1930s, a time when deciphering Picasso's intentions, getting inside his darting, catch-me-if-you-can progress, from Cubism to Neoclassicism, from Surrealism to Guernica, was an all-important matter to that small but crucial category of American artists who had no use for the approved manner of the moment, American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although...
Given time, it was a question that would help a handful of American artists to the breakthroughs that produced Abstract Expressionism, the triumphs of Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and so on. Picasso would not be the only model they looked to. In their late-night arguments, the work of every painter from Uccello to Kandinsky was brought in for questioning and combed through for motifs and ideas, for rules and for permission to break them. But Picasso was the man, the one continually bursting through the confines of art history and coming back with discoveries worth bursting...
...yelled, "You're the cartoonist. You ought to know something about art. Good. Well, now you're the f__ing art critic." Hughes, in fact, knew little, and the subject was difficult to master at a time when there were no art history programs and only a single Picasso in all of Australia. So after faking it for a while he lit out for Europe, wandering from church to museum. That experience, he writes, gave him a first-rate education but forever ruined him for "the company of some oafish collector who just bought a Jeff Koons but thinks Parmigianino...
...voyeur, he captured lovers - like those in Couple at the Four Seasons Dance Hall, Rue de Lappe (circa 1932), pictured - prostitutes and brothels, some "like a chapel lit up for midnight mass." About 190 drawings of a "born draftsman," as Pablo Picasso labeled him, will also be on offer, alongside a dozen of Brassaï's sculptures; prices range from about $250 to $100,000. Not bad for the night shift. www.brassai-succession-millon.com
...blacks and light, Brassaï pictured extraordinary cityscapes. A voyeur, he captured lovers - like those in Couple at the Four Seasons Dance Hall, Rue de Lappe (circa 1932) - prostitutes and brothels, some "like a chapel lit up for midnight mass." About 190 drawings of a "born draftsman," as Pablo Picasso labeled the artist in 1939, will also be on offer, alongside a dozen of Brassaï's sculptures; prices range from €200-80,000. Not bad for the night shift. www.brassai-succession-millon.com