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Etchings by James Whistler, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, as well as other less well-known artists, are currently on display at the Fogg Museum in the special exhibition "Etching and Etchers Since 1850." The show highlights etchings done since etching became a rare artistic medium--that is, since the invention of photography and less expensive print processes allowed for mass-production of illustrations and rendered etching an inefficient process...
...being suckered in by it. Though her informed discussion of Mapplethorpe's work is unlikely to convince serious detractors of the artist's merit, it provides an interesting study in art history of a decidedly different sort than we are used to. She traces the artist's influences, from Picasso to F. Holland Day, along with his growing interest in gay pornography as a medium...
...loathed the fragmentation of Picasso's work and had no taste for the open, pieced-together asymmetry of Constructivism. Form for him is always closed and unitary, though different forms could be added to one another to make a whole, as in the interplay between sculpture and base. And he especially loved form that spoke of life or awareness at their origins: primal, self-enclosed, a marble egg floating in its own space like a cell, an egglike head lying on its side, filled with what the poet Octavio Paz called "the dreams of undreaming stone...
Toloui said the committee also asked about his favorite piece of art-work (Picasso's "Guernica") and his favorite ancient Persian king (Xerxes, because of his "clever politics during the Peloponnesian...
Inspired by the welded works of Picasso and Gonzalez. Smith followed their work in the journal Cahiers d' Art while pursuing his own experiments in non-representational sculptural forms. Always fascinated by the technical craft of sculpture as well as its form, he studied European sculpture closely, even analyzing fragments of ancient Greek statuary...