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...history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for René Magritte. "You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris," Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his picket-fence cottage in suburban Brussels. "And in Paris, there was this wild Catalan who was doing all there was to be done with technique. I could tell there wasn't going to be any technique left for the rest of us to invent. So that's when I decided I was going to paint ideas...
Both Magritte and Picasso, and their very different ideas, figure prominently in "Surrealism 1919-1944," the show that's breaking attendance records at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in D?sseldorf. So do Dali, Miró, Ernst, Arp, Tanguy, Giacometti and a host of others belonging to the movement that curator Werner Spies is not afraid to call the most important of the 20th century - "because all the greatest artists of the century were connected with it." With 500 paintings and sculptures, the show documents the whole range of Surrealism's vast output in pursuit of surprise and mystery. It even exhibits...
...Picasso was a special case. By the early 1930s he had grown particularly close to the Surrealists, as demonstrated by such works as The Kiss and the bulbous, dismembered forms in Woman Throwing a Stone, which is said to owe a lot to Miró. But after about 10 years he went his own way. Spies was a close friend of both Ernst and Picasso in the 1960s and recalls stark differences. "Ernst was utterly cultivated. I remember he was always reading - poetry, natural science, everything. Picasso? I felt he could have lifted a book to his eyes without opening...
According to a complaint issued by the U.S. Attorney in New York, Waksal owes $80 million to several banks, and $65 million of the debt is secured by ImClone shares. Private investigators say he used 21 of his most prized artworks--by Picasso, Chagall, Giacometti and others--as collateral for one of his dozens of loans. He has been sued several times--for bouncing checks and for unpaid bills--and has been slapped with numerous tax liens...
William Paley was still running CBS at 89. Picasso turned out 140 canvases at 88 and was still painting when he died at 92. Great minds aside, how long is a good mind good for? And what can the rest of us do to keep our minds alert and active, to safeguard our gray matter from the inevitable cognitive decline associated with aging...