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...renewal from an old master who will always have a lot of the kid in him. "Maybe I can't recapture that old energy," he says. "But I can recapture the spirit of that energy. I have a lot left in me. Rubinstein was playing brilliantly at 80; Picasso didn't stop. Why should...
Through summer 1995. "Selections from the Joseph H. Hazen Collection." This exhibition offers viewers a rare opportunity to view privately owned works by some of the great masters of the late 19th and early 29th centuries. Included are works by Braque, van Gogh, Kandinksky, Modigliani, Leger, Picasso, and Toulouse-Lautrec...
...vice of the autodidact-a mania for cultural name dropping. They read like Woody Allen. Thus Baseball, 1983-84, came garnished with references to Red Smith, Bill James, Velazquez, Durer, Max Brod, Satchel Paige and, of course, Kafka; while The Sensualist, 1973-84, was prefaced by quotes from Picasso ("My one and only master!") and Matisse ("It is undoubtedly to Matisse that I owe the most"). Then Kitaj: "Cazanne is my favourite painter too ... Maybe that's why he draws so many of us to him." Us: oh, come on. William Lieberman, who curated this show...
...Since Picasso's Guernica, few artists had attempted historical commentary. Robert Rauschenberg did in his silkscreen paintings of the early '60s, and so did James Rosenquist with big quasi-dioramas like The F-111, his reflection on the Vietnam War. Kitaj differs from both, for he wanted to paint his images all the way through, not transfer them out of mass media. It's odd that in the midst of all the talk about "appropriation" that went on through the '80s and into the '90s, Kitaj's name so seldom came up in New York: for this is a painter...
Through summer 1995. "Selections from the Joseph H. Hazen Collection." This exhibition offers viewers a rare opportunity to view privately owned works by some of the great masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Included are works by Braque, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Modigliani, Leger, Picasso, and Toulouse-Lautrec...