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...Biological Studies at a magnificent compound designed by Louis Kahn, on an oceanfront promontory in La Jolla, California. It attracted scientists in many fields to pursue biomedical research. In 1970, two years after divorcing his first wife, Salk married Francoise Gilot, the onetime companion and muse of Pablo Picasso and mother of two of Picasso's children...
...took hold, Americans lost interest in most new European art; the New York School pushed it off the radar screen, and it apparently lost the mandate of art history. The new, swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Lager, Miro-but who was going to pay much attention to insipid French abstractionists like Hans Hartung or Alfred Manessier in the face of what Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning were doing...
Chief among the former was, of course, Picasso, who emerged from the German Occupation of France an emblem of noncollaboration, a hero of the left and of artists in general. His bronze Death's Head, 1943, is the perfect image for the show's beginning: a cannonball of impacted death, heavier than any imaginable head. Massacre in Korea, 1951, asserts continuity by quoting Goya and thus morosely pointing out that the disasters of war only recur. The cluster of gun barrels leveled at the weeping women comes directly out of Goya's The Third of May. They are fantasy weapons...
...archetypal postwar sculptor, other than Picasso, was Alberto Giacometti. His images of the figure, as much Egyptian as modern, with their ravaged bronze surfaces and their august sense of withdrawal from touch, are well represented here. The postwar years released a wave of damaged-figure sculpture, none of it quite up to Giacometti's level. But metaphors of violence enabled certain painters of the figure to do some remarkable work, whose results would continue to be recycled by others into the '80s. There was practically nothing in '80s neo-Expressionism that approached the tumultuous energy of Karel Appel, whose...
...loan to the Harvard University Art Museums. Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski, associate professor, Department of Art, Queen's University will speak about Vincent Van Gogh; Yule F. Heibel, independent scholar will speak about Wassily Kandinsky; Robert J. Boardingham, assistant curator, European Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts will speak about Pablo Picasso and Hollis Clayson, professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University will speak about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Sackler Museum Auditorium, 2:15 p.m. Free...